Tallberg Foundation Podcast

The Amazon rainforest, with its vast influence on global weather, its rivers supplying a quarter of the world’s fresh water, and its role as home to 10% of known lifeforms, is crucial to the planet. This week on New Thinking for a New World, Colombian marine biologist Fernando Trujillo, a 2024 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winner and National Geographic Explorer of the Year, discusses his efforts to protect the Amazon’s freshwater basin amid record drought, historically low river levels, and rising water temperatures. Can the Amazon’s decline be stopped? Tune in to hear his insights.