Flooded forest, or Varzea.

I can´t add much other than I believe the data to be true. My wife works for Brazil´s IBAMA, and most of my buddies are IBAMA federal agents. I routinely pose as a tourist, inform on illegal activity and photograph what I can. The habitat loss is one problem, wildlife poaching another, illegal mining another, and bio-piracy still another. It isn´t only Brazilians but international pressures as well. Working on the front lines, I see a major problem and no end to the battle, but I´ve also seen a bigger effort on the part of the Brazilian government and better inter agency cooperation, including from Brazil´s military. I haven´t seen much occurring to stop poaching in Peru and of course Columbia has little control over it´s forests. Only a little more than 50% of the Amazon is in Brazil.