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Enhancing biodiversity through the belly: Agroecology comes alive in Chile

Constanza Monterrubio Solís 30 Aug 2021

Half of burned forests across Latin America don’t survive, study finds

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 20 Aug 2021

An Ecuadoran town that survived illegal miners now faces a licensed operator

Antonio José Paz Cardona 18 Aug 2021

Shoe-leather science helps quadruple protected area in Peruvian Amazon

Yvette Sierra Praeli 10 Aug 2021

Hotter and drier: Deforestation and wildfires take a toll on the Amazon

Ignacio Amigo 20 Jul 2021

‘Animal rights will be part of our DNA’: Q&A with Bogotá councilor Andrea Padilla

John Edward Myers 16 Jul 2021

Building back Miami’s Biscayne Bay: Do natural solutions hold hope?

Marlowe Starling 14 Jul 2021

‘Red-carded’ Australian miner signals intention to play on in Greenland

Jenny Denton 12 Jul 2021

Colombia brings landmark rulings of importance closer to Indigenous communities

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 9 Jul 2021

Environmental defenders in Ecuador aren’t safe, new report shows

Kimberley Brown 9 Jul 2021
Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge needs a makeover. Is rainforest lumber still in style?

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Jul 2021

In the Colombian Andes, a forest corridor staves off species extinction

Veronika Perkova 2 Jul 2021

Mining exposes Indigenous women in Latin America to high mercury levels

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 1 Jul 2021

Beef industry causes deforestation in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park

Tatiana Pardo Ibarra 29 Jun 2021

In Colombia, end of war meant start of runaway deforestation, study finds

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 25 Jun 2021

Camera trap pics of rare species in Vietnam raise conservation hopes

Michael Tatarski 24 Jun 2021

In Scotland, the rewilding movement looks to the past to plan its future

Kieran Dodds 21 Jun 2021

Conservation solutions in paradise: Jamaica’s Oracabessa Bay Fishing Sanctuary

Gladstone Taylor 10 Jun 2021
Small-scale deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

In less than a generation, legal mining in Colombia deforested over 120,000 hectares

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 8 Jun 2021

‘We guard the forest’: Carbon markets without community recognition not viable

Dimitri Selibas 4 Jun 2021
Satellite image of oil palm, agriculture, and forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Image credit: Maxar Technologies.

Chocolate giant funds high resolution carbon map to protect forests

Aurora Solá 1 Jun 2021
Ancestral trees of the Sarayaku community, located in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo courtesy of Patricia Gualinga.

Human rights must be at heart of new biodiversity framework, experts say

Kimberley Brown 25 May 2021

Violence against Indigenous, local groups deplored amid Colombia protests

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 21 May 2021

98% of Bunge shareholders back proposal to reduce deforestation

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 12 May 2021
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

Trafficking of banned Myanmar teak lands German company with $4m fine

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 10 May 2021

Ecuadoran water fund transforms consumers into conservationists

Dimitri Selibas 4 May 2021

Behind the buzz of ESG investing, a focus on tech giants and no regulation

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Apr 2021

A year after Ecuador oil spill, Indigenous victims await justice, reparations

Vincent Ricci 29 Apr 2021

Jamaican Climate Change Youth Council seizes opportunity to continue advocacy amidst pandemic

Gladstone Taylor 22 Apr 2021

New beef scorecard measures brands against their deforestation promises

Aurora Solá 21 Apr 2021

Some guitar makers in pursuit of sustainable manufacturing

Stephan Boissonneault 20 Apr 2021
A group of Yiaku youth scouts, who have been trained by the Kenya Forest Service to take part in forest patrols and other conservation activities. Image by Shadrack Kavilu for Mongabay.

Indigenous peoples are being shortchanged as forest guardians: Report

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 16 Apr 2021

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