Qualla: Tapajós National Forest https://qualla.com/tapajos-national-forest en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/z/2/g/tapajos-national-forest-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tapajós National Forest https://qualla.com/tapajos-national-forest Tapajós National Forest: Introduction https://qualla.com/tapajos-national-forest/ Photo credit Isabelle Allet-Coche, CC BY-SA 4.0. This is not a national park. The distinction matters. In Brazilian law, a floresta nacional, a national forest, is an IUCN category VI protected area - a protected area with sustainable use of natural resources. Which means you can log in Tapajós National Forest, carefully and selectively, in ways you cannot log across the border of a national park. You can harvest Brazil nuts. You can extract oils. You can live here as a traditional community. What you cannot do is clear-cut, convert to pasture, or export hardwood for buyers who do not ask where it came from. The forest, 549,066.87 hectares on the east bank of the Tapajós River, has been running this experiment in regulated use since its creation by decree in February 1974.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/z/2/g/tapajos-national-forest-wp/6z2g-tapaj-s-national-forest-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tapajós National Forest: The Boundaries https://qualla.com/tapajos-national-forest/ Photo credit Lula Oficial, CC BY-SA 4.0. The forest lies in the municipalities of Belterra, Aveiro, Rurópolis, and Placas in western Pará. Its boundaries are drawn by water and by road. The Tapajós River forms the western edge, a broad blue-black tributary of the Amazon that runs for a hundred and some kilometers along ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/z/2/g/tapajos-national-forest-wp/6z2g-tapaj-s-national-forest-the-boundaries.mp3 0:06 2 full Tapajós National Forest: The Canopy and the Trees https://qualla.com/tapajos-national-forest/ Photo credit Lula Oficial, CC BY-SA 4.0. Botanists working the Tapajós have catalogued more than twenty named commercial tree species and dozens more that appear in the forest's three major vegetation types: dense rainforest with emergent giants, alluvial rainforest that floods seasonally, and open tropical forest where...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/z/2/g/tapajos-national-forest-wp/6z2g-tapaj-s-national-forest-the-canopy-and-the-trees.mp3 0:06 3 full Tapajós National Forest: The Animals That Stay https://qualla.com/tapajos-national-forest/ Photo credit Ericatarina, CC BY-SA 3.0. The protected species list reads like an index of Amazonian big fauna: white-bellied spider monkey and white-cheeked spider monkey, both threatened; giant anteater; jaguar; giant armadillo; giant otter. The jaguars here move between the forest and the adjacent Amazônia National P...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/z/2/g/tapajos-national-forest-wp/6z2g-tapaj-s-national-forest-the-animals-that-stay.mp3 0:06 4 full Tapajós National Forest: Harvard in the Canopy https://qualla.com/tapajos-national-forest/ Photo credit Ericatarina, CC BY-SA 3.0. The most consequential research at Tapajós is not ecological in the classical sense. It is atmospheric. Since the early 2000s, the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia, or LBA, has operated a tall flux tower inside a primary Tapajós forest site. The tower, inst...

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