Funding for the BR364 highway, to cut across the western Amazon, has also been granted by Collor.

Three species of Chelyocarpus are native to the western Amazon, while the fourth is from western Colombia.

S. tarzoo occurs upstream of Manaus in the western Amazon.

The 170,000 fires counted last year in the western Amazon contributed a tenth of the world's production of carbon dioxide.

Chelyocarpus ulei is a species of palm tree that is native to the western Amazon.

Species diversity tends to peak here, at the foot of the Andes, in the western Amazon.

Colombian middlemen have also encouraged Indians in Brazil's western Amazon to become growers.

But to the dismay of ranchers determined to convert the western Amazon into cow pasture, that single shotgun blast has echoed around the world.

One story from the western Amazon reported several hunters who killed over 200 woolly monkeys in less than two years, which lead to their local extinction.

It also is in the top for amphibian diversity compared to other sites sampled in the western Amazon.