“In the wake of devastating fires in the Amazon basin, seven Amazonian countries earlier this month signed a pact to protect the world’s largest tropical forest via disaster response coordination and satellite monitoring.

Anthropology Professor Janet M. Chernela, a renowned expert on both environmental topics and indigenous peoples in the Amazon basin, sheds light on this devastation, and possible paths forward.”

Read the full interview Professor Chernela gave to Maryland Today, here: https://today.umd.edu/articles/guardians-rainforest-d46ebdd3-bf7c-46d3-b3a9-aa0f1324caf6