Emanuela Evangelista, conservation biologist and environmental activist, has been involved in the protection of biodiversity for more than 20 years. She lives in the village of Xixuaú, in the heart of Amazonia. She is president of Amazônia Onlus, an organisation that supports the natives of the Amazon in the fight against deforestation and for the conservation of the tropical forest and its biodiversity. She is an Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and a member of the Species Survival Commission of the IUCN. Her works have contributed to the protection of 600,000 hectares of intact forest. This is her first book.