This research is strengthening community efforts to save Amazon species

National Geographic Explorer João Campos-Silva is a biologist and conservationist. He collaborates with local communities and sees himself as a scientific supplement to traditional conservation. If he is to drive home one message about protecting the Amazon, its inhabitants, and even the global ecosystem, it's that collective action, led by local organizations, works. 

Campos-Silva is participating in the National Geographic Society Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition — a two-year series of scientific studies spanning the entire Amazon River Basin, supported by Rolex as part of its Perpetual Planet initiative.