Alexandrapopescu

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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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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
Andean condor flying

Artificial incubation gives Colombia’s threatened Andean condor a new lifeline

Christina Noriega 2 Dec 2025

The valuable peatlands of Peru’s Pastaza River Fan: one of the world’s largest carbon reservoirs

Leslie Moreno Custodio 1 Dec 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Honduras’ presidential election?

Maxwell Radwin 26 Nov 2025

IDB financed meat & poultry company that polluted Indigenous Ecuador lands: Report

Ana Cristina Alvarado 21 Nov 2025

The land deal threatening a vital piece of Bolivia’s Chiquitano dry forest

Maxwell Radwin 20 Nov 2025
turtle

In Mexico, world’s smallest turtle faces big threats from trafficking, habitat loss

Sandra Weiss 18 Nov 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Chile’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 13 Nov 2025

Soy giants quietly prepare for EU deforestation law; impacts still uncertain

Marina Martinez 12 Nov 2025
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How a ‘green gold rush’ in the Amazon led to dubious carbon deals on Indigenous lands

Gloria Pallares 11 Nov 2025

The price of gold: In Venezuela, mining threatens Indigenous Pemón

Catherine Ellis 11 Nov 2025

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