We participated in SEB 2025 conference this year

Horáčková, J., Chuspe Zans, M. E., Clavo Peralta, Z.M., Bortl, L. Polesny, Z., 2025. Snakebite treatment in the context of Cashinahua traditional medicine in the Purus province of the Peruvian Amazon. Poster presentation. 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnobotany, June 7-12, Prague. Czech Republic
2025.sebconference.org

last year, we also published an article in the popular magazine Vesmír

• Koka, pasta, crack – Globální souvislosti drobného lístku (magazine Vesmír 103, 448, 2024/7, Czech only), here

Thanks to the great support from the Field Museum Chicago , SLA presents with great pleasure new photographic field guide. The publications focuses on the fruits od (primarily) commonly used indigenous and introduced woody species in the Ucayali and Loreto regions of Peruvian Amazon. Other guides (both focused on medicinal plants) are under preparation.

Bortl, L., and Flores, Y. B., 2022. Fruits of native and introduced plants of Ucayali and Loreto, Perú. Rapid colour field guide N. 1456, the Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA. Direct download available HERE (20 pp. pdf). 

We would like to invite you to the photo show Macuya – world of bloody woody.
Exhibition will take place at Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Tropical Agriculture (Prague) between May 2nd and June 28th of 2019.
See you at the opening ceremony on May 14th 2019 from 16:00.

Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/440822790007455/

You can find Pavilon T of Faculty of Tropical Agriculture (where the exhibition is actually installed) right here (Kamýcká 1303, Suchdol, Praha): mapy.cz/zakladni?x=14.3765326&y=50.1297377&z=18

We would like to invite you to the photo show dedicated to Macuya forest in the Peruvian Amazon.
Exhibition will take place at Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Tropical Agriculture (Prague) between May 2nd and June 28th of 2019.
See you at the opening ceremony on May 14th 2019 from 16:00.

Facebook event (SLA pages): www.facebook.com/events/440822790007455/

Czech TV reports about our exposition at Říčany Museum. Tamtam show (March 30, 2019). Click to show at ČTV web pages (Czech only): www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/

Students for Living Amazon would like to invite you to an official opening of our new exposition at Museum of Říčany. We start on Thursday 21, 2019 at 18:00.

http://www.ricany.cz/org/muzeum/

The show will take place from January 23rd until June 20th of 2019. More information (in Czech) can be found here: http://www.ricany.cz/org/muzeum/aktuality/vystava-ziva-amazonie

We would like to invite you to new exhibition at the Municipal Musem in the city of Horažďovice (Czech Republic). The show will take place from January 4th until March 31 of 2019.

SLA presented poster Herbal markets of the Pucallpa city, Peruvian Amazon at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany (Living in a global world: ethnobotany, local knowledge and sustainability), at Instituto Politécnico in Bragança, Portugal.

more here: http://2017.sebconference.org/engine/search/index.php?func=detail&aid=145

Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences, Students for the Living Amazon, o.p.s. and Museum Vysočiny Havlíčkův Brod, p.o.

are pleased to invite You to the opening of the exhibition LIVING AMAZON that will take place on Friday, January 20, 2017 at 13:30 in T pavilion as part of the Open Doors Days of the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. The exhibition will stay there until February 20, 2017 and enable visitors to apprise by an accessible form the diversity and uniqueness of the tropical rain forest. Visual material introduces the natural conditions, indigenous flora, fauna, and interesting features of the Peruvian Amazon. The artwork of Czech “painter of the jungle” Otto Placht will help the audience to dream away and turn wild. The opening will be accompanied by presentation of Alexandr Rollo, MSc: “Adventures on the river Pacaya,” which will be held from 14:00.

Thanks to the great support of Prof. Robin Foster, and his team from the Field Museum Chicago (especially Tatzyana Wachter), SLA presents with great pleasure two new photographic field guides. These publications focuses on commonly used indigenous (primarily) and introduced woody species in the Ucayali region of Peruvian Amazon. These include important timber species (e.g. some Meliaceae and Fabaceae), edible fruit bearing species (Annona spp., Matisia cordata, Psidium guajava…), species producing construction material (Attalea spp.), gum/resin/latex producing species (Croton lechleri, Ficus spp., Hevea brasiliensis…), some medicinal species (Brunfelsia grandiflora, Jatropha spp., Uncaria spp.), etc. Other guides are under preparation.

Lipenský, J., and Bortl, L., 2016. Common and useful woody species from Ucayali Region, Peru – Árboles y arbustos útiles e comunes de la Región Ucayali, Perú. Rapid colour field guide N. 359, the Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA. Direct download available HERE (20 pp. pdf).

Bortl, L., and Lipenský, J., 2016. Useful palms (Arecaceae) from Ucayali Region, Peru Palmeras útiles (Arecaceae) de la Región Ucayali, Perú. Rapid colour field guide N. 820, the Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA. Direct download available HERE (5 pp. pdf).