Amazon Lab

“We’re moving beyond the tipping point so fast. I’ve studied a lot of places on earth, and I feel the Amazon is the most important place on earth. Because it’s the most diverse place on earth. We could lose that. It’s a crucial time.” - Paul Baker

“The Amazon has been a place of fascination for the Western imagination for centuries, and yet it’s a widely misunderstood and misrepresented place. It’s hard to describe a place with that level of cultural and biological diversity, and over such a vast territory. It’s crucial that we understand it in the best possible way in order to have chance to fight for it.” - Gustavo Furtado

“[The Amazon Lab's interdisciplinary approach] sets a table for us to have these deep conversations in different disciplines about the Amazon. It demands that because of its scale in so many ways. It requires conversations that take seriously the knowledge of indigenous communities, the biota, presentations in 17th century travel logs…there is no better way to study it than a lab.” - Christine Folch