Giants of the Amazon

Every Brazil nut you eat comes from the Amazon rainforest. Brazil nut trees have a unique reproductive system, which requires the presence of large bees to transport pollen from one tree to another. This means these Amazonian giants only thrive in natural forests, and when trees are cut down around them, they no longer produce.

The Unamat forest, Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru.

Photo by Marco Simola/CIFOR

For more information on CIFOR's research on Brazil nuts in Peru, please contact Manuel Guariguata (mailto:m.guariguata@cgiar.org)

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