Alexandra Popescu

Senior Editor - Latin America

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Alex is the senior editor for Latin America for Mongabay's Global Desk. She is based in London, UK.

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In Brazil, regenerative farming advances, but deforestation still pressures ecosystems

Mie Hoejris Dahl 17 Mar 2026

Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing

Bobby Bascomb 13 Mar 2026

Disastrous floods in Colombia reignite debate over hydroelectric dam

Euan Wallace 13 Mar 2026

‘We do not have time’: Interview with MEP Delara Burkhardt on the EUDR’s second delay

Ashoka Mukpo 11 Mar 2026

Ecuador’s new ecological corridor connects Andes and Amazon ecosystems

Maxwell Radwin 9 Mar 2026

Colombia’s coffee industry well placed but wary as EU deforestation rule looms

Mie Hoejris Dahl 4 Mar 2026
Emergent tree in the Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Climate change drives uneven shifts in tree diversity across Amazon and Andes

Constance Malleret 27 Feb 2026

Panama NGOs face lawsuits, asset seizures in fight over port construction

Maxwell Radwin 23 Feb 2026

Giant tortoises return to Galápagos island 180 years after relatives went extinct

Bobby Bascomb 20 Feb 2026

Loosely social animals at higher risk of decline than social species

Bobby Bascomb 19 Feb 2026

Argentina considers weakening glacier safeguards in pursuit of critical minerals

Maxwell Radwin 19 Feb 2026

In Ecuador’s Chocó, roads shape the fate of the rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 18 Feb 2026

Guanacos’ return to Gran Chaco restirs debate around wildlife translocations

Mark Hillsdon 12 Feb 2026

Another controversial land deal in Suriname threatens the Amazon Rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 11 Feb 2026

Bolivia Indigenous communities, local gov’ts help protect nearly 1 million hectares

Maxwell Radwin 6 Feb 2026

Peru to invest $7.6 billion to continue critical minerals extraction

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jan 2026

In the Brazilian Amazon, community conservation success comes with a cost: Study

Logan Rance 29 Jan 2026

Patagonia fires reignite debate over Argentina’s underfunded environmental agencies

Maxwell Radwin 26 Jan 2026

In Brazil, planting forests for carbon credits could help ecosystem restoration

Constance Malleret 23 Jan 2026

How US intervention could deepen Venezuela’s environmental crisis

Maxwell Radwin 20 Jan 2026

Colombia poised for another drop in deforestation in 2025, data show

Maxwell Radwin 16 Jan 2026

Silvopasture gains momentum in the Amazon, but can it shrink beef’s footprint?

Charlie Espinosa 12 Jan 2026
Guatemala accounted for 13% of the environmental defenders killed or disappeared across the world in 2024, as documented by Global Witness. Image courtesy of the Guatemalan President’s Office.

Guatemala’s eco defenders reel from surge in killings and persecution

Gonzalo Ortuño López 2 Jan 2026
The mining dredges installed along the Nanay River have begun to consume sections of forest. Image courtesy of FCDS Peru.

Mercury, dredges and crime: Illegal mining ravages Peru’s Nanay River

Enrique Vera 31 Dec 2025

Latin America in 2025: Conservation promises collide with crime and extraction

Mie Hoejris Dahl 31 Dec 2025

The rise of CC35 and the business behind its climate deals

Gloria Pallares 22 Dec 2025
A cocoa farmer and member of a local cooperative inspects the state of bean fermentation in Lembe Yezoum, Cameroon.

Researchers find concerning gaps in global maps used for EUDR compliance

John Cannon 19 Dec 2025
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

In Brazil, a new label gives more visibility to deforestation-free beef

Constance Malleret 18 Dec 2025

Mexico is inflating its climate spending by billions of dollars. Here’s how.

Maxwell Radwin 11 Dec 2025

In Chocó, river defenders say race for energy transition threatens lifelines

Euan Wallace 8 Dec 2025

Scientists push for greater climate role for Latin America’s overlooked ecosystems

Antonio José Paz Cardona 4 Dec 2025

Forest loss, fires and invasions soar in Nicaraguan wildlife refuge, watchdog warns

Gonzalo Ortuño López 3 Dec 2025

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