When someone asks me if I’ve “seen the Amazon,” I think it reveals that people don’t know what the Amazon forest really is. I was born in Manaus, a city in the middle of the Amazon; the Amazon Forest is my home. I studied biology, but my contact with the forest began when I was a child. Like my parents, I was raised to like and respect nature.

Continue reading Érica M. S. Souza’s story on the SSE Community Blog [1].