The Coari Regional Center was created in 2009 with the approval of the MCT / CNPq / PPBio No. 60/2009 publication with the project "The Middle Solimões Region Biological Diversity: Inventories, Professional Collections and Training as subsidies for the Conservation of the Amazon. ".
The giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) is the largest existing mustelid, endemic to Latin America. The species was considered to be locally extinct in many areas of its historical distribution due to intense commercial hunting for their valuable skin. Only with the hunting ban in Brazil in 1967, did the species began to show signs of population recovery.
On November 5, 2015, CENBAM researchers carried out a tour of the municipality of Novo Airão, in order to verify the consequences of forest fires that took place on 20-22 September in a “campinarana” (meadowland) area. Due to the scarcity of data on fires in this type of environment, the researchers realized that this would be a great opportunity to collect data to quantify the impact of fire at this time of year in the metropolitan region of Manaus.
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