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					<title>Indigenous peoples near Congo parks propose diverse solutions for the future of conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/indigenous-peoples-near-congo-parks-propose-diverse-solutions-for-the-future-of-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Sep 2026 20:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Blaise Kasereka MakutaLatoya Abulu]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Congo Basin, and Democratic Republic Of Congo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Community Forests, Conflict, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Environment, Forests, Governance, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Law, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Resource Conflict, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Sustainable Forest Management, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — High above the lush forests of protected areas in the Congo Basin in eastern Congo, the calls of endemic birds and monkeys echo through the trees. Beneath the canopy, the Maiko, Salonga, Kahuzi-Biega, and Virunga National Parks sprawl across millions of hectares. For millennia, long before these protected areas [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — High above the lush forests of protected areas in the Congo Basin in eastern Congo, the calls of endemic birds and monkeys echo through the trees. Beneath the canopy, the Maiko, Salonga, Kahuzi-Biega, and Virunga National Parks sprawl across millions of hectares. For millennia, long before these protected areas were established, Indigenous peoples lived in, roamed and shaped these lands, only to be expelled during the 20th century. “We lived in harmony with the forest,” says Julien Basimika, a young Mutwa man, one of the Indigenous Twa people in Congo. “We protected everything that needed protecting, because our lives depended on it. If we had started destroying the forest, we would have suffered the consequences.” Today, many descendants of those who were displaced live in extreme poverty owing to lack of land, armed conflicts and discrimination. Discussions on how to better involve these communities in conservation fuel passionate debates among protected area managers, environmentalists, lawyers and human rights advocates: Should they return to their ancestral lands or not? Should they be part of environmental projects? If so, which ones? How can we mitigate armed conflicts and the involvement of Indigenous peoples in illegal logging, which complicate the situation? Among the communities living near these four national parks, views vary on how to address these issues. Meanwhile, policymakers are discussing how best to involve communities in the Belém Call to Action, announced in November 2025, which aims to halt and reverse deforestation and forest degradation&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/indigenous-peoples-near-congo-parks-propose-diverse-solutions-for-the-future-of-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Scientists use mining data to build malaria alert system in the Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/scientists-use-mining-data-to-build-malaria-alert-system-in-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Sep 2026 14:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fernanda Wenzel]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation Solutions, Crime, Diseases, Gold Mining, Governance, Health, Illegal Mining, Mining, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[A 1% increase in illegal mining led to a 24% spike in malaria cases among the Yanomami, prompting a new data-driven defense.]]>
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							<![CDATA[A study detailing the links between illegal gold mining and malaria cases in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon won second place in the MapBiomas Award, announced in July. The research collective produces data on land use in Brazil and recognizes initiatives that use this information to promote conservation. The study examined the explosion in malaria cases under the government of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president from January 2019 to 2022, whose far-right policies encouraged illegal miners to invade Brazil&#8217;s largest Indigenous land, home to 31,567 Yanomami. Known locally as garimpeiros, the illegal miners spread disease, contaminated water sources with mercury, and scared away wildlife, prompting a humanitarian crisis in the territory straddling the states of Roraima and Amazonas. Using satellite imagery and data from the Ministry of Health, researchers led by Márcia Castro, from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the U.S., found that a 1% increase in the mined area in the Yanomami territory was associated with a 24% increase in monthly malaria cases. The study, published in November 2025 in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, shows that malaria also increased in areas without mining activity but still used as routes by the miners. “The garimpeiros move around a lot because they have to bring in supplies and machinery,” Castro told Mongabay. “When you pass through these areas, you’re a carrier of the parasite as you walk, and you can get bitten by a mosquito along the way. And just like that, [the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/scientists-use-mining-data-to-build-malaria-alert-system-in-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-328177</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Can REDD+ deliver for Philippines’ Iraya Mangyan?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/can-redd-deliver-for-philippines-iraya-mangyan/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Aug 2026 02:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Keith Anthony Fabro]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Philippines, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation, Biodiversity, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Conservation Solutions, Ecosystems, Forest Carbon, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Nature-based climate solutions, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Redd, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[PUERTO GALERA, Philippines — Before sunrise, Bernito Pampilo shoulders a backpack carrying a mobile phone, flashlight and enough food — he hopes — for a day’s patrol through the forests of Puerto Galera in northern Mindoro, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Manila. By around 6 a.m., the 56-year-old Iraya Mangyan patroller and two [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[PUERTO GALERA, Philippines — Before sunrise, Bernito Pampilo shoulders a backpack carrying a mobile phone, flashlight and enough food — he hopes — for a day’s patrol through the forests of Puerto Galera in northern Mindoro, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) south of Manila. By around 6 a.m., the 56-year-old Iraya Mangyan patroller and two companions leave their mountain outpost in Aninuan village after praying to Apo Iraya, the creator, for protection. Their route crosses rivers, steep ridges, dense vegetation and deep natural holes known locally as balahaw. “If you walk too quickly, sometimes you won’t see the hole,” Pampilo told Mongabay. “If you fall into it, you could die.” Some patrols continue into the night, forcing the team to cross rivers and climb ridges by flashlight. Mobile apps point them toward assigned coordinates, but not toward the safest path. The forest lies within the 14,661-hectare (36,228-acre) Puerto Galera Biosphere Reserve, designated by UNESCO in 1977. For Pampilo, the work is more than a job. It is part of an effort to protect forests his community has depended on for generations while testing whether an international climate mechanism can deliver lasting Indigenous benefits. Led by the Center for Conservation Innovations Philippines Inc. (CCIPH), the Mindoro Forest and Biodiversity Conservation Programme (MFBCP) aims to conserve more than 40,000 hectares (nearly 99,000 acres) of ancestral forest, while supporting about 2,500 Iraya Mangyan households. Running from 2020 to 2049, it combines ancestral-domain recognition, carbon monitoring, Indigenous patrols and livelihood projects under the United&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/can-redd-deliver-for-philippines-iraya-mangyan/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-327306</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New ‘conservation deed’ aims to protect tree kangaroos, forests, people in Papua New Guinea</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/new-conservation-deed-aims-to-protect-tree-kangaroos-forests-people-in-papua-new-guinea/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Aug 2026 03:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Melanesia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, and Papua New Guinea]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Law, Mammals, Marsupials, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[It happened with a few strokes of a pen on a hilltop in northwestern Papua New Guinea on June 30: The leaders of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance (TCA) finalized an agreement to protect the densely canopied forests of the Torricelli Mountains that ripple outward in every direction. Their signatures were the last of hundreds collected [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It happened with a few strokes of a pen on a hilltop in northwestern Papua New Guinea on June 30: The leaders of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance (TCA) finalized an agreement to protect the densely canopied forests of the Torricelli Mountains that ripple outward in every direction. Their signatures were the last of hundreds collected from clan leaders across the range in June. With this conservation deed, TCA and the people of the Torricellis have achieved a key milestone after decades of work to stave off logging, help wildlife rebound and improve the lives of community members. After the signing, those gathered erupted in celebration, dance and song at TCA’s base in the village of Lumi. In all, 266 clan leaders signed the document. Caleb Bulu, a project manager with TCA, called it an “exciting time.” “We have been waiting for so long,” said Bulu, who has fought to keep loggers off his own land in the region. The people of the Torricelli Mountains were ecstatic, he said in a call via WhatsApp a few days after the signing. “They were very happy, all across the 41 villages [and] were celebrating at that time.” The Torricellis are home to a staggering array of species — perhaps 4% of the world’s biodiversity in a relatively tiny speck of mostly intact montane forest — including two species of critically endangered tree kangaroo. In the 1990s, mammologist Tim Flannery and his colleagues in PNG first described the tenkile (Dendrolagus scottae) and the weimang&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/new-conservation-deed-aims-to-protect-tree-kangaroos-forests-people-in-papua-new-guinea/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A fraction of promised climate money reaches Amazon communities: Interview with Latimpacto’s leaders</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/a-fraction-of-promised-climate-money-reaches-amazon-communities-interview-with-latimpactos-leaders/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Jul 2026 13:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Beverley Choo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Community Development, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Environment, Finance, Forests, Funding, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Interviews, Law, philanthropy, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Amazon is the largest rainforest on Earth, with many funders making financial commitments to conserve this crucial ecosystem. Yet, when the declarations are traced to the ground, the capital is rarely there. This is especially true for Indigenous and local communities that steward and depend on this ecosystem but remain severely under-resourced and overlooked. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Amazon is the largest rainforest on Earth, with many funders making financial commitments to conserve this crucial ecosystem. Yet, when the declarations are traced to the ground, the capital is rarely there. This is especially true for Indigenous and local communities that steward and depend on this ecosystem but remain severely under-resourced and overlooked. Carolina Suárez Visbal and Juan David Ferreira know this pattern well. As CEO and programs director of Latimpacto — a Colombia-based network dedicated to mobilizing philanthropic and impact capital across Latin America — they have spent years navigating the gap between what the world promises the Amazon and what actually reaches the communities living within it. &#8220;One thing that worries us at Latimpacto about capital deployment is that people keep announcing funds and initiatives, but when you trace the record, this capital turns out to be very difficult to actually mobilize,&#8221; Ferreira told Mongabay at the Philanthropy Asia Summit 2026 in Singapore. &#8220;The investment thesis or the objectives of the fund do not align with the realities and the territories.&#8221; Latimpacto&#8217;s response has been to create infrastructure to build capacity for regional environmental funding. The organization&#8217;s Pan-Amazon Fellowship reshapes how capital is structured and deployed in the ecosystem by training funders to understand the Amazon not as a monolithic rainforest but as a heterogeneous and dynamic place with nine distinct national contexts, and both isolated Indigenous communities and cities of over 2 million people. Latimpacto&#8217;s initiative InNature Lab redefines what innovation means in an Amazonian&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/a-fraction-of-promised-climate-money-reaches-amazon-communities-interview-with-latimpactos-leaders/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-322870</doi>				</item>
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					<title>South America’s farms depend, in part, on a healthy Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/south-americas-farms-depend-in-part-on-a-healthy-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Jun 2026 08:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder's briefs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Conservation, Drought, Ecosystem Services, El Nino, Environment, Environmental Policy, Environmental Services, Fires, forest degradation, Forests, Hydroelectric Power, Natural Capital, Nature-based climate solutions, Precipitation, Rainforests, Restoration, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Soy, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#160; The Amazon is often described in terms of how much carbon it stores. It also moves vast amounts of water. Its trees draw moisture from the soil and return it to the air through transpiration. Some rain caught by the canopy also evaporates back into the atmosphere. That moisture falls again, some of it [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[&nbsp; The Amazon is often described in terms of how much carbon it stores. It also moves vast amounts of water. Its trees draw moisture from the soil and return it to the air through transpiration. Some rain caught by the canopy also evaporates back into the atmosphere. That moisture falls again, some of it inside the basin and some of it far downwind. For much of South America, the forest helps sustain rainfall, farming, hydropower, and urban water supplies. A recent paper in Nature, by Nico Wunderling and colleagues, gives this hydrological role greater weight in the climate case for the Amazon. The authors used a dynamical systems model and atmospheric moisture tracking to estimate how deforestation and warming interact across the basin. Without deforestation, their model finds a critical global warming threshold of about 3.7 to 4.0 degrees Celsius, beyond which up to a third of the Amazon forest risks losing stability. When deforestation is included, the risk becomes much larger at a lower level of warming. Under deforestation of 22% to 28% of the biome and warming of 1.5 to 1.9 degrees Celsius, the model finds a near system-wide transition affecting 62% to 77% of the forest. Rain over the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler Those numbers should be treated carefully. The Amazon is not a single ecological unit. Western forests, southern forests, flooded forests, upland forests, secondary forests, and fire-damaged edges differ in species composition, rainfall, soils, and drought tolerance. A model cannot capture every&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/south-americas-farms-depend-in-part-on-a-healthy-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-321533</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Legal protections for Brazil’s isolated Indigenous peoples: Interview with prosecutor Daniel Luís Dalberto</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/legal-protections-for-brazils-isolated-indigenous-peoples-interview-with-prosecutor-daniel-luis-dalberto/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Jun 2026 13:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aimee Gabay]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Environment, Environmental Law, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Land Rights, Law, Rainforests, and Saving Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The year 2011 marked the first time a land-use restriction order was enforced for the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Territory, a swath of Brazilian Amazon roughly twice the size of Singapore and home to people living in voluntary isolation. The order was meant to protect the latter by prohibiting unauthorized individuals from entering — but rates of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The year 2011 marked the first time a land-use restriction order was enforced for the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Territory, a swath of Brazilian Amazon roughly twice the size of Singapore and home to people living in voluntary isolation. The order was meant to protect the latter by prohibiting unauthorized individuals from entering — but rates of forest loss and invasions grew. In 2019, Ituna/Itatá was one of the Indigenous territories with the highest forest loss, primarily due to illegal land grabbers. In Brazil, land-use restriction orders exist to protect isolated Indigenous peoples and are a temporary tool in cases where the demarcation process to formalize the protected status and boundaries of Indigenous territories are not yet complete. But as recent Mongabay reporting has shown, they’re often renewed many times over for years while the formal land titling stalls, and aren’t always effective at protecting isolated peoples’ lands from invaders. Following one of the latest land-use restriction orders in 2022 for the Ituna/Itatá territory, the area lost 2,211 hectares (5,464 acres) of tree cover, or about 1.5% of its total area, according to satellite analysis by Mongabay. The most recent renewal was in 2025. Brazilian federal public prosecutor Daniel Luís Dalberto, head of the office for recently contacted Indigenous peoples and those living in voluntary isolation, told Mongabay in a recent interview that while the legal measure is important, it should have “a short time frame, until the Indigenous territory is demarcated as quickly as possible,” and should be accompanied by other&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/legal-protections-for-brazils-isolated-indigenous-peoples-interview-with-prosecutor-daniel-luis-dalberto/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The Amazon’s path from crisis to durability</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/the-amazons-path-from-crisis-to-durability/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 May 2026 23:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Bioeconomy, Conservation Finance, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Indigenous Rights, Land Use Change, Law Enforcement, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the Amazon, a forest can remain on the map while losing much of what makes it function. The Amazon rainforest is often discussed through a few familiar measures: deforestation, carbon, protected areas, and tipping points. Each is useful. But they do not fully explain why biodiversity continues to decline even where maps still show [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the Amazon, a forest can remain on the map while losing much of what makes it function. The Amazon rainforest is often discussed through a few familiar measures: deforestation, carbon, protected areas, and tipping points. Each is useful. But they do not fully explain why biodiversity continues to decline even where maps still show forest, laws exist, and international pledges sound ambitious. A territory can be recognized and still be invaded. A satellite can detect illegal clearing and still fail to trigger a penalty. A story can describe crisis and still leave readers unsure what can be done. Six gaps help explain the problem: finance and forest economy, governance, enforcement, forest function, Indigenous rights, and narrative. They overlap in ways that make each harder to close. The finance and forest-economy gap Protecting forests costs money every year. It requires staff, transport, monitoring, community work, legal support, fire control, restoration, and the ability to respond when illegal actors arrive. Yet the money available for those tasks remains far below the scale of the problem. Globally, UNEP estimates that forest investments need to reach about $300 billion a year by 2030 to meet climate, biodiversity, and land-degradation targets. The report also notes that this figure excludes some enabling conditions, including governance and law enforcement, which means the true need is probably higher. The Brazilian Amazon shows the imbalance more clearly. WWF and Conservation Strategy Fund estimate that Brazil needs about $12.8 billion a year to meet forest policy goals. Current positive&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/the-amazons-path-from-crisis-to-durability/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Brazil has protected much of the Amazon. It now has to pay for it.</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/brazil-has-protected-much-of-the-amazon-it-now-has-to-pay-for-it/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 May 2026 00:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Conservation Finance, Environment, Forests, Funding, Parks, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[For protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the most basic questions is not where the boundary lies. It is whether anyone has the money to manage what sits inside it. A reserve may exist in law. It may appear on maps, in international pledges, and in official counts of how much of Brazil [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the most basic questions is not where the boundary lies. It is whether anyone has the money to manage what sits inside it. A reserve may exist in law. It may appear on maps, in international pledges, and in official counts of how much of Brazil is under protection. On the ground, though, management depends on less visible things: staff, fuel, boats, radios, boundary markers, fire brigades, monitoring, community work, and the ability to respond when illegal miners, loggers, poachers, or land-grabbers arrive. A protected area without these things is still protected, but only in a narrow administrative sense. A gap measured in money A new paper in Environmental Conservation puts numbers to this gap. The study, by Helenilza Ferreira Albuquerque Cunha and colleagues, examined funding deficits in 300 federal protected areas in Brazil between 2014 and 2023. Together, those areas cover nearly 750,000 square kilometers, representing most of the protected areas managed by ICMBio, Brazil’s federal biodiversity agency. The researchers compared actual spending with evidence-based estimates of the minimum cost of managing each site. In 2023, 72% of the protected areas they studied were underfunded. The combined shortfall was equivalent to about $958 million in purchasing-power terms. The gap was largest in the Amazon. According to the paper, Amazonian protected areas had an average funding deficit of 79.2% in 2023. In practical terms, they received about one-fifth of what they needed. In the Atlantic Forest, the average deficit was 27.6%.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/brazil-has-protected-much-of-the-amazon-it-now-has-to-pay-for-it/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-320088</doi>				</item>
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					<title>10 forces that could reshape the future of the world’s forests</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/10-forces-that-could-reshape-the-future-of-the-worlds-forests/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Apr 2026 00:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Global, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence, Biodiversity, Carbon Market, climate finance, Conservation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, extractives, Forest Carbon, Forestry, Governance, Illegal Logging, International Trade, Mining, Monitoring, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Technology, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[The forces shaping forests in the coming decade extend beyond any single driver. Shifts in politics, finance and technology are unfolding at once, often in ways that reinforce each other. The result is greater uncertainty for ecosystems and for those who depend on them. A new horizon scan, published in Forest Policy and Economics and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The forces shaping forests in the coming decade extend beyond any single driver. Shifts in politics, finance and technology are unfolding at once, often in ways that reinforce each other. The result is greater uncertainty for ecosystems and for those who depend on them. A new horizon scan, published in Forest Policy and Economics and led by Matilda Kabutey-Ongor, sets out to map these changes. The paper draws on structured consultation with researchers and practitioners and identifies ten emerging issues likely to matter between now and the early 2030s. They include the retreat of traditional aid, the spread of artificial intelligence, and a renewed push for mineral extraction. What stands out is how quickly these developments are unfolding. Institutions are not keeping up. Some of the most immediate changes are financial. For decades, conservation and forest governance have relied on public funding from wealthier countries. That support is weakening. Cuts to development assistance and research budgets threaten not only field projects but also the monitoring systems that underpin them. Philanthropy may offset part of the loss, though likely at a smaller scale and with less predictability. New forms of finance are emerging alongside this. Forest carbon markets continue to evolve, driven by regulation and corporate commitments, even as concerns remain over how credits are calculated and who benefits. At the same time, funds intended to channel money directly to Indigenous peoples and local communities are beginning to take shape. In some cases, they bypass governments and traditional intermediaries. Emerging issues&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/10-forces-that-could-reshape-the-future-of-the-worlds-forests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-316981</doi>				</item>
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					<title>As EU-Mercosur agreement goes into effect, environmentalists raise red flags</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/as-eu-mercosur-agreement-goes-into-effect-environmentalists-raise-red-flags/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Apr 2026 21:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ramana Rech]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, European Union, and Latin America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agrochemicals, Commodity agriculture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Economics, Environment, Environmental Law, Law, Law Enforcement, Mining, Pesticides, Rainforest Destruction, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, and Soy]]>
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							<![CDATA[In March, after decades of negotiations, the free trade agreement between Mercosur nations and the European Union (EU) was ratified by Paraguay, the last founding member of the Latin American bloc to give the green light to the deal. Already in its final stage, the document will be provisionally implemented in May, 2026, according to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In March, after decades of negotiations, the free trade agreement between Mercosur nations and the European Union (EU) was ratified by Paraguay, the last founding member of the Latin American bloc to give the green light to the deal. Already in its final stage, the document will be provisionally implemented in May, 2026, according to the European Commission. The agreement is being hailed as an economic boon for both EU and Latin American nations. However, it may cause a series of environmental impacts. According to various NGOs and environmental advocates, major problems for Latin America could include expansion of deforestation, mining, and pesticide imports and use. Other experts argue that the agreement could impose a series of environmental rules on already existing global trade – in addition to facilitating knowledge exchange among the parties. Good for trade, bad for the environment? Mercosur, as it’s known in Spanish, and Mercosul, in Portuguese, has been dubbed the Southern Common Market. It represents one of the world’s leading economic blocs, and its fifth-largest economy. It is composed of five member countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia) and seven associate members (Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and most recently Panama). In general terms, the treaty between Mercosur nations and the European Union provides for gradual reduction of import tariffs between the two continental blocs. In late February, the Brazilian government stated that the EU “commits to eliminating import tariffs on approximately 95% of goods that account for 92% of the value of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/as-eu-mercosur-agreement-goes-into-effect-environmentalists-raise-red-flags/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-317212</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Peru-Brazil Bioceanic Railway brings too much risk to the Amazon, experts warn</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/peru-brazil-bioceanic-railway-brings-too-much-risk-to-the-amazon-experts-warn/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Mar 2026 17:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Yvette Sierra Praeli]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, and Peru]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Indigenous Peoples, Infrastructure, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, and Saving Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The idea of a railway line stretching across the width of South America — from Peru on the Pacific coast to Brazil on the Atlantic — has gained steam since the inauguration of the megaport of Chancay in Peru. To complete its route, this “Bioceanic Railway,” as it’s known, would have to cross the Andes [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The idea of a railway line stretching across the width of South America — from Peru on the Pacific coast to Brazil on the Atlantic — has gained steam since the inauguration of the megaport of Chancay in Peru. To complete its route, this “Bioceanic Railway,” as it’s known, would have to cross the Andes mountain range in Peru and also the Amazon Rainforest in both countries. In July 2025, Brazil and China signed a cooperation deal to conduct feasibility studies on the railway corridor. In August 2025, Peru’s Transport and Communications Ministry presented the railway plan before the country’s Congress. Image by the Peruvian government. While the Peruvian government wasn’t present at that signing, in May that year the country’s then-economy minister, Raúl Pérez Reyes, and transport minister, César Sandoval Pozo, met with senior Chinese officials, including Fei Dongbin, president of China’s National Railway Administration, and Song Yang, the Chinese ambassador to Peru, to discuss the development of railway infrastructure in Peru. Several months later, in January 2026, the Chancay-Sierra Central section of the railway line was announced. The project was reportedly awarded to a Chinese company. The route that would continue after this section into Brazil has not yet been confirmed, but there are two proposals for crossing the Andes and the Peruvian Amazon to reach Brazilian territory. The mega construction project has prompted widespread concern due to the potential socioenvironmental impacts, especially for the section that crosses the Amazon. Compounding worries are the economic and geopolitical jousting&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/peru-brazil-bioceanic-railway-brings-too-much-risk-to-the-amazon-experts-warn/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Restoration of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest may hinge on market for native plants</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/restoration-of-brazils-atlantic-forest-may-hinge-on-market-for-native-plants/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Mar 2026 18:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sarah Derouin]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Forest, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Plants, Rainforests, Reforestation, Restoration, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Trees, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The forests of the world are teeming with life, from the towering trees down to the microscopic organisms that quietly recycle and refuel the soil. That’s why clearing forests leads to biodiversity loss, problems with water and soil quality, and less carbon storage. In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, restoration projects have been underway for decades to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The forests of the world are teeming with life, from the towering trees down to the microscopic organisms that quietly recycle and refuel the soil. That’s why clearing forests leads to biodiversity loss, problems with water and soil quality, and less carbon storage. In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, restoration projects have been underway for decades to combat clearing. While some successes have been noted, there are still barriers to starting — and sustaining — restoration efforts in the region. This is especially the case for privately owned land. Now, new research in the journal Ambio digs in to how to better balance reforestation efforts with economic benefits for landowners in the Atlantic Forest. “We wanted to go beyond the classic, cliché narrative that says biodiversity has an invaluable market value and many active principles … we wanted to answer which ones,” says study lead author Pedro Medrado Krainovic, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo. The researchers were curious if they could find the reforestation sweet spot of increasing biodiversity, creating economic incentives and providing social support — a combination known as bioeconomics. In particular, they wanted to know if native plant species in restored patches of the Atlantic Forest could help bridge the gap between forest restoration goals and economic opportunities, by measuring how many of these species could be economically exploited. The team surveyed vegetation in areas undergoing forest restoration, noting the variety and abundance of native plants. Using patent records for plants in medical, cosmetic and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/restoration-of-brazils-atlantic-forest-may-hinge-on-market-for-native-plants/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Climate or biodiversity? Global study maps out forestation’s dilemma</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/climate-or-biodiversity-global-study-maps-out-forestations-dilemma/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Mar 2026 02:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Earth Science, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forestry, Forests, Fungi, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Landscape Restoration, Logging, Mitigation, National Parks, Oceans, Parks, Plants, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Research, Restoration, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Threats To Rainforests, Timber, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Planting trees is a vital strategy to combat both climate change and the biodiversity crisis. As forests grow, they sponge carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and provide renewed habitat for threatened animals, plants, fungi and countless unseen lifeforms. That ability of forests to help slow climate change has driven a push to reforest degraded lands [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Planting trees is a vital strategy to combat both climate change and the biodiversity crisis. As forests grow, they sponge carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and provide renewed habitat for threatened animals, plants, fungi and countless unseen lifeforms. That ability of forests to help slow climate change has driven a push to reforest degraded lands or even plant new forests where none existed before. It’s also spurred other strategies, like the cultivation of bioenergy crops coupled with carbon capture. But these approaches require a lot of land, and they could potentially put pressure on the species that live in these spots — if a forestation project or hectares of bioenergy row crops subsume native grasslands, for example. A recent analysis shows that around 13% of globally important, biodiversity-rich land overlaps with areas earmarked for these types of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects. “It&#8217;s unfortunate that we face multiple global problems all at once, including both climate change and biodiversity loss,” said Mark Urban, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut in the U.S., who wasn’t involved in the research. “When we try to fix one, we can make things worse for the other.” Agroforestry in Ethiopia. Image by Trees ForTheFuture via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, used five existing models that guide climate action in line with the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting warming to 1.5° Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels to map out locations tabbed&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/climate-or-biodiversity-global-study-maps-out-forestations-dilemma/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A journey from student to Amazon “Junglekeeper”: Interview with Paul Rosolie</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/a-journey-from-student-to-amazon-junglekeeper-interview-with-paul-rosolie/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Feb 2026 16:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Books, Conservation, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Rainforests, and Saving Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Paul Rosolie has had a career unlike any other. First traveling to the Peruvian Amazon at the age of 18, Rosolie partnered with Juan Julio Durand, a local member of the Infierno Indigenous group. Together, the pair explored the primeval forest of the Las Piedras River, a tributary of the Amazon River and a place [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Paul Rosolie has had a career unlike any other. First traveling to the Peruvian Amazon at the age of 18, Rosolie partnered with Juan Julio Durand, a local member of the Infierno Indigenous group. Together, the pair explored the primeval forest of the Las Piedras River, a tributary of the Amazon River and a place little seen by outsiders. “It’s climax community, untouched, primordial forest, and we have the chance to save it,” Rosolie tells Mongabay in a new interview. When roads began to breach the region, Rosolie and Durand turned from young explorers into “junglekeepers,” the name of both their nonprofit and a new book by Rosolie. Junglekeepers: What it Takes to Change the World is the personal tale of Rosolie’s rise from a wide-eyed student to heading a multimillion-dollar nonprofit devoted to saving part of the western Amazon — and all the challenges in between. The book recently made The New York Times Best Sellers list. Rosolie says he had many ups and downs in the book. From the Eaten Alive documentary debacle to partnering with billionaire Dax Dasilva to fund the Junglekeepers nonprofit; from discovering the floating forest with its giant anacondas to struggling for years with depression and a plaguing sense of failure. “At 22, people are like, ‘Yes, go follow your dream.’ At 29, people are like, ‘OK, that’s cool. It’s been going on for a while’ … Then, at 33, 35, people are like, ‘Hey, man. How’s that going, jungle boy?’” Rosolie says. The&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/a-journey-from-student-to-amazon-junglekeeper-interview-with-paul-rosolie/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Brazil gov’t builds map to help exporters comply with EU anti-deforestation rule</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/brazil-govt-builds-map-to-help-exporters-comply-with-eu-anti-deforestation-rule/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Feb 2026 16:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Conservation Technology, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Logging, Mapping, Politics, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Technology, Timber, Tropical Forests, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Brazilian government has built a map to help commodity exporters comply with the European Union’s new regulation on deforestation-free products, or EUDR. The country’s National Space Research Institute, INPE, created new technology to generate deforestation data in polygons of a half-hectare (1.2-acre) threshold — one of the EUDR requirements. Brazil&#8217;s official deforestation data for [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Brazilian government has built a map to help commodity exporters comply with the European Union’s new regulation on deforestation-free products, or EUDR. The country’s National Space Research Institute, INPE, created new technology to generate deforestation data in polygons of a half-hectare (1.2-acre) threshold — one of the EUDR requirements. Brazil&#8217;s official deforestation data for the Amazon comes from INPE&#8217;s satellite-based monitoring system, PRODES, which uses a one-hectare threshold. &#8220;It was the first time we did [this in] less than 1 hectare [2.5 acres],&#8221; Claudio Almeida, coordinator of INPE&#8217;s BiomasBR monitoring program, told Mongabay by phone. The EUDR, when it comes into effect at the end of 2026 (delayed for the second year in a row), will require suppliers to provide geolocalized data and other documentation to prove that their products exported to the EU aren’t sourced from areas illegally deforested after Dec. 31, 2020. The legislation aims to address increasing claims of products imported into the EU being linked to illegal deforestation, including in the Amazon Rainforest, and will target seven commodities: soy, cattle, rubber, palm oil, coffee, cocoa and timber. Graphic by Andrés Alegría/Mongabay. PRODES’ annual deforestation rate refers to data from Aug. 1 from the previous year to July 31 in the following year, but INPE also used high resolution satellite imagery and developed new technology to produce deforestation data with the cutoff date required by EUDR, Almeida said. December is the start of the Amazon rainy season, which poses challenges to track deforestation due to the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/brazil-govt-builds-map-to-help-exporters-comply-with-eu-anti-deforestation-rule/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Massive Amazon conservation program pledges to put communities first</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/massive-amazon-conservation-program-pledges-to-put-communities-first/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Jan 2026 17:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Constance Malleret]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community Development, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Governance, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, locals tap rubber and extract Brazil nuts from the rainforest for a living. It’s a way of life dependent on the forest that goes back generations — and which rubber tapper Chico Mendes, who gave the area its name, was murdered trying to defend in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, locals tap rubber and extract Brazil nuts from the rainforest for a living. It’s a way of life dependent on the forest that goes back generations — and which rubber tapper Chico Mendes, who gave the area its name, was murdered trying to defend in 1988. The reserve has been strengthened in recent years thanks to a massive conservation program known as ARPA, the Amazon Region Protected Areas. First established in 2002 by the Brazilian government, and later expanded with the support of WWF and private donors, ARPA helps protect 120 conservation areas spanning more than 60 million hectares (nearly 154 million acres) — about the size of Ukraine — of the Brazilian Amazon. The program initially worked on creating new protected areas and then on designing a durable financial mechanism to support their protection. A new phase, called ARPA Comunidades (Communities), is now shifting the focus to the traditional communities who live within the forest and help protect it. Half of the conservation areas covered by ARPA are sustainable-use conservation units like the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, inhabited by local communities who live sustainably off the forest’s resources. “We were missing closer attention to the communities living in these sustainable-use conservation units, who were contributing to conservation,” said Fernanda Marques, project development officer at FUNBIO, the Brazilian organization responsible for managing the $120 million fund that underpins ARPA Comunidades. Brazil nuts in the hand of Raimundão. Image © Tessel in &#8216;t&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/massive-amazon-conservation-program-pledges-to-put-communities-first/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-312524</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Poaching down but threats remain for forest elephants, recent population assessment finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/poaching-down-but-threats-remain-for-forest-elephants-recent-population-assessment-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Jan 2026 15:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Spoorthy Raman]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Ecosystem Engineers, Ecosystems, Elephants, Endangered Species, Forests, Ivory, Mammals, Megafauna, Poaching, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[More than 145,000 African forest elephants roam the rainforests of Africa, according to a recent population assessment. Published in December by the African Elephant Specialist Group at the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, the survey relies on improved DNA-based techniques to provide the first estimate for these critically endangered pachyderms since they were recognized [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[More than 145,000 African forest elephants roam the rainforests of Africa, according to a recent population assessment. Published in December by the African Elephant Specialist Group at the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, the survey relies on improved DNA-based techniques to provide the first estimate for these critically endangered pachyderms since they were recognized as a distinct species in 2021. African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) are found primarily in the dense rainforests of Central Africa, with significant but dwindling numbers remaining in West Africa, and small populations in East and Southern Africa. Hybrids with their close cousins, savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana), also occur infrequently where both forest and savanna elephants are found. Counting these shy and elusive giants is a challenge for researchers as they blend into their surroundings or vanish into the dense understory of their forest habitat. A forest elephant with calf in Gabon. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. Some 153 population surveys, carried out between 2016 and 2024 across roughly three-quarters of L. cyclotis’s known range, counted 135,690 forest elephants. The IUCN’s assessment included 22 elephant populations, mostly in Central Africa, that had not previously been surveyed. The researchers estimate there are as many as 11,000 more elephants in the remaining parts of the species’ range, pushing the total to just over 145,000 individuals. “This report is the first one that shows forest elephant numbers,” report author Fiona Maisels, a conservation scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), told Mongabay by email. “In previous iterations, the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/poaching-down-but-threats-remain-for-forest-elephants-recent-population-assessment-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The year in rainforests 2025: Deforestation fell; the risks did not</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/the-year-in-rainforests-2025-deforestation-fell-the-risks-did-not/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Dec 2025 20:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Amazon, Asia, Brazil, Central Africa, Colombia, Congo Basin, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Global, Indonesia, Latin America, Peru, Southeast Asia, Sumatra, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Biodiversity credits, Carbon Credits, Carbon Market, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Deforestation, Environment, Fires, Forestry, Forests, Governance, Green, Illegal Logging, Illegal Trade, Indigenous Peoples, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Redd, Regulations, Remote Sensing, Satellite Imagery, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Technology, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Year-end review]]>
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							<![CDATA[The story of the world’s tropical forests in 2025 was not one of dramatic reversal, but one shaped by accumulated pressure. In several regions, deforestation slowed. In others, loss continued in less visible forms, shaped by fire, degradation, and political choices not limited to large-scale clearing alone. Governments continued to speak the language of protection, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The story of the world’s tropical forests in 2025 was not one of dramatic reversal, but one shaped by accumulated pressure. In several regions, deforestation slowed. In others, loss continued in less visible forms, shaped by fire, degradation, and political choices not limited to large-scale clearing alone. Governments continued to speak the language of protection, even as infrastructure, extraction, and energy projects advanced into forest landscapes. Progress was real, though uneven, and the distance between policy commitments and conditions on the ground remained substantial. What distinguished the year was the growing influence of indirect forces, rather than a single driver of loss. Heat, drought, and past damage increasingly shaped forest outcomes, even where new clearing slowed. Commodity markets rewarded persistence more than short-lived price spikes. Finance shifted away from individual projects toward broader fiscal tools. Enforcement mattered, alongside institutional credibility and the ability to operate consistently over time. At the global level, climate diplomacy continued, with limited appetite for binding decisions. COP30 avoided collapse and deferred the hardest choices. Forests remained prominent in rhetoric while enforceable outcomes remained limited. Market-based tools—carbon credits, trade regulation, and conservation finance—advanced unevenly, shaped as much by political confidence and capacity as by technical design. Taken together, 2025 underscored that tropical forests are now shaped more by interacting systems rather than single policies. Finance, science, enforcement, conflict, and climate stress increasingly operate together, often reinforcing one another. This review traces where those systems functioned, where they faltered, and what that means for the forests caught&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/the-year-in-rainforests-2025-deforestation-fell-the-risks-did-not/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indigenous Dayak resist new southern Borneo national park amid global protection deficit</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/indigenous-dayak-resist-new-southern-borneo-national-park-amid-global-protection-deficit/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Nov 2025 10:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rendy TisnaRiyad Dafhi Rizki]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conflict, Conservation, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Use Change, National Parks, Protests, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[BANJARMASIN, Indonesia — A growing coalition of Indigenous communities, students and civil society organizations from Borneo is rallying against fast-moving plans to establish a new national park in the remote Meratus mountain range. “The Meratus forest is our mother,” said Anang Suriani, a spokesperson for the Dayak Indigenous community from Kambiayin, a village in South [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[BANJARMASIN, Indonesia — A growing coalition of Indigenous communities, students and civil society organizations from Borneo is rallying against fast-moving plans to establish a new national park in the remote Meratus mountain range. “The Meratus forest is our mother,” said Anang Suriani, a spokesperson for the Dayak Indigenous community from Kambiayin, a village in South Kalimantan province that falls within the borders of the proposed Meratus Mountains National Park. “It&#8217;s a place where we live, farm, forage, practice tradition and obtain medicine,” he added. “Making it a national park is tantamount to destroying us.” The government plans to zone Meratus Mountains National Park over 119,779 hectares (295,980 acres), an area twice the size of the city of Chicago, or more than 50% larger than the country of Singapore. Since Indonesia’s independence in 1945, successive governments have established 57 national parks across the country, the largest of which is Lorentz National Park in Papua, at around 2.5 million hectares (6.2 million acres), an area 30 times larger than Singapore. The smallest, Kelimutu National Park on Flores island, is slightly smaller than the city state. South Kalimantan is one of only four of the 38 provinces across Indonesia that doesn’t have a national park. However, in April this year, UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural office, designated the Meratus Mountains as a Global Geopark for its “fascinating geological record of complex tectonic evolution beginning in the Jurassic period, 201 to 145 million years ago.” Officials in Indonesia unveiled the national park draft in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/indigenous-dayak-resist-new-southern-borneo-national-park-amid-global-protection-deficit/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Three tracks to rescue 1.5°C: fossil exit, forest protection, and nature’s carbon (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/three-tracks-to-rescue-1-5c-fossil-exit-forest-protection-and-natures-carbon/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Nov 2025 17:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ilona Szabó de Carvalho]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Global, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Commentary, Conservation, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Energy, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Green, Landscape Restoration, Oceans, Politics, Rainforests, Restoration, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Subsidies, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The planet just crossed a grim milestone: last year’s global temperature averaged more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, shredding our margin for error under the Paris Agreement. That doesn’t doom the goal forever, but it leaves little room for delay. Clinging to energy decarbonization alone won’t pull us back. If negotiators at COP30 in Belém [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The planet just crossed a grim milestone: last year’s global temperature averaged more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, shredding our margin for error under the Paris Agreement. That doesn’t doom the goal forever, but it leaves little room for delay. Clinging to energy decarbonization alone won’t pull us back. If negotiators at COP30 in Belém want any chance of lowering temperatures below 1.5°C again, they must run three tracks at once: accelerate the phase-out of fossil fuels, lock in a time-bound roadmap to zero deforestation, and scale carbon capture from nature, especially forests, mangroves, seagrasses, and other “blue carbon” systems. Think of Earth as a pressure cooker already running hot. Turning down one burner—the fossil-fuel flame—helps, but steam is still blasting out through land-use emissions and the loss of natural carbon sinks. The gauge is rising because we keep punching holes in the lid and letting safety valves clog. Unless we vent that pressure while cutting the flame, the whole system risks catastrophic failure. To keep 1.5°C within reach, we need to start with the obvious: fossil emissions drive the crisis. COP30 should harden and accelerate what recent summits only began—including phasing down unabated coal, phasing out inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies, and tripling renewable power by 2030. This isn’t a vibes-based transition. Countries need near-term, sector-specific targets embedded in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), with credible finance packages to enable grids, storage, transmission, and clean industry. These packages also translate into jobs, lights, and energy security—visible results that build public trust.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/three-tracks-to-rescue-1-5c-fossil-exit-forest-protection-and-natures-carbon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Tanzanian conservationists mourn death of plant expert Aloyce Mwakisoma</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/tanzanian-conservationists-mourn-death-of-plant-expert-aloyce-mwakisoma/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Oct 2025 13:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ryan Truscott]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Forests, Obituary, Rainforests, Research, Saving Rainforests, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Tanzanian conservationists are mourning the tragic death of renowned plant expert Aloyce Mwakisoma, who played a critical role in forest restoration and recently helped identify and describe a giant new species of rainforest tree. Mwakisoma, 45, was struck and killed by a bus on Oct. 6 near the village of Sanje, in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Tanzanian conservationists are mourning the tragic death of renowned plant expert Aloyce Mwakisoma, who played a critical role in forest restoration and recently helped identify and describe a giant new species of rainforest tree. Mwakisoma, 45, was struck and killed by a bus on Oct. 6 near the village of Sanje, in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains. It was on the same day he had visited family members to share news about his imminent church wedding to longtime partner Salma Jabili. Mwakisoma was born and raised in the Kilombero Valley, near the Udzungwa Mountains, an isolated massif in eastern Tanzania that’s part of a chain known as the Eastern Arc. As the son of a hunter, Mwakisoma acquired a profound knowledge of the region&#8217;s plants and animals. When hunting was formally outlawed, following the establishment of Udzungwa Mountains National Park in 1992, Mwakisoma&#8217;s father, Langsom, became a research assistant, working with scientists studying the massif&#8217;s treasure trove of biodiversity. As a young boy, Mwakisoma would accompany his father and the researchers. Aloyce Mwakisoma, left, and Pastory Njekela, former nurseries manager at Udzungwa Corridor, working on plans for future seed collections for the reforestation project. Image courtesy of Andrea Bianchi. Mngeta Valley, Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. Image by Andrea Bianchi. He later became a research assistant himself. During one notable early assignment 15 years ago, Mwakisoma was tasked with following a troop of Udzungwa red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus gordonorum) on a daily basis. One afternoon, during the hottest time of the day, both he&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/tanzanian-conservationists-mourn-death-of-plant-expert-aloyce-mwakisoma/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>MPs across Latin America unite to stop fossil fuels in the Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/mps-across-latin-america-unite-to-stop-fossil-fuels-in-the-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Oct 2025 13:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mie Hoejris Dahl]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Latin America, and Peru]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, extractives, Forest Loss, Governance, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Law Enforcement, Mining, Natural Gas, Oil Drilling, Politics, Protected Areas, Saving Rainforests, and Threats To Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[BOGOTÁ, Colombia and SÃO PAULO, Brazil — On Oct. 7 in Brazil’s National Congress in Brasília, lawmakers, Indigenous leaders and civil society representatives gathered to present a global parliamentary investigation into the effort to phase out fossil fuels in the Amazon. The investigation, led by Parliamentarians for a Fossil-Free Future, a network of more than [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[BOGOTÁ, Colombia and SÃO PAULO, Brazil — On Oct. 7 in Brazil’s National Congress in Brasília, lawmakers, Indigenous leaders and civil society representatives gathered to present a global parliamentary investigation into the effort to phase out fossil fuels in the Amazon. The investigation, led by Parliamentarians for a Fossil-Free Future, a network of more than 900 lawmakers from 96 countries, resulted in a report, which documents the impacts of fossil fuel activities in the Amazon, including deforestation, pollution and social conflicts, and proposes how to move toward a fossil-free Amazon. Prior to presenting the report, parliamentarians from Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador put forward bills in their national legislatures to stop fossil fuel expansion in the Amazon regions of their countries. A parliamentarian in Bolivia presented a bill along the same lines on Oct. 7, following the release of the report. It is the first time parliamentarians have united in a call for a no-expansion zone for fossil fuels in the Amazon, presenting law proposals in five of the Amazon’s nine countries. The parliamentarians hope COP30 in Belém will put a special focus on the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest, as a key piece in addressing global climate change. Yet, fossil fuel extraction remains central to many Amazon economies, with countries continuing to invest heavily in petroleum projects. Oil and gas fuel the Amazon’s crisis Oil and gas exploration covers about 1.3 million square kilometers (more than 500,000 square miles) in the Amazon — roughly double the size of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/mps-across-latin-america-unite-to-stop-fossil-fuels-in-the-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Setting the record straight on Jurisdictional REDD+: The case of Brazil</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/setting-the-record-straight-on-jurisdictional-redd-the-case-of-brazil/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Sep 2025 13:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Daniel NepstadLuiza MuccilloMonica de los RiosRonaldo Seroa da MottaThuanny Vieira]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation, carbon, Carbon Credits, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forests, Green, Jurisdictional Approaches, Mitigation, Rainforests, Redd, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Misconceptions about jurisdictional REDD+ programs have been amplified in recent press coverage, such as reports by Climate Home News and Mongabay. This analysis aims to clarify key aspects of JREDD+ to contribute to a more accurate and informed public debate. Jurisdictional REDD+ Is Not New—In Brazil or Globally Jurisdictional REDD+ (JREDD+) is not an experimental [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Misconceptions about jurisdictional REDD+ programs have been amplified in recent press coverage, such as reports by Climate Home News and Mongabay. This analysis aims to clarify key aspects of JREDD+ to contribute to a more accurate and informed public debate. Jurisdictional REDD+ Is Not New—In Brazil or Globally Jurisdictional REDD+ (JREDD+) is not an experimental approach. It began to be formally discussed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2005, with the first decisions on the mechanism adopted in 2007 during COP 13 in Bali. Through the Bali Action Plan, the Parties to the Convention recognized the need to support developing countries in reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation—REDD is the acronym for this phrase—as well as the role of conservation, sustainable forest management, and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks—the ‘plus’ in REDD+. Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler Brazil was the first country in the world to create a JREDD+ program, establishing the Amazon Fund in 2008—as the first results-based REDD+ financial mechanism, designed both to receive payments and to channel resources through benefit-sharing, supporting forest conservation and sustainable development. The country then established its National REDD+ Strategy and the National REDD+ Commission in 2015. At the subnational level, Acre and Mato Grosso states created legal frameworks for REDD+ in 2010 and 2013, respectively. Both have received REDD+ payments under the REDD+ for Early Movers (REM) Program supported by Germany and the UK. These experiences are part of Brazil’s long-standing commitment to climate&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/setting-the-record-straight-on-jurisdictional-redd-the-case-of-brazil/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>As forest elephants plummet, ebony trees decline in Central Africa’s rainforests</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/as-forest-elephants-plummet-ebony-trees-decline-in-central-africas-rainforests/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Aug 2025 13:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Spoorthy Raman]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cameroon, Central Africa, and Congo Basin]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Ecosystems, Elephants, Environment, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Ivory, Poaching, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Seed Dispersal, Solutions, Traditional Knowledge, Trees, Wildlife, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2017, when Vincent Deblauwe joined the Cameroon-based Congo Basin Institute (CBI) to study African ebony (Diospyros crassiflora) — economically valuable pitch-black, dense wood — the Indigenous Baka people accompanied him on his field trips. As they sat around campfires and trekked through the rainforests, Deblauwe tapped into their knowledge of flora and fauna, especially [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2017, when Vincent Deblauwe joined the Cameroon-based Congo Basin Institute (CBI) to study African ebony (Diospyros crassiflora) — economically valuable pitch-black, dense wood — the Indigenous Baka people accompanied him on his field trips. As they sat around campfires and trekked through the rainforests, Deblauwe tapped into their knowledge of flora and fauna, especially about ebony trees and their dispersal. They all told him that one animal was responsible for the ebony tree’s future survival: the forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis). Deblauwe observed that in forest patches without elephants, young ebony saplings were few and far between. Over the last three decades, relentless poaching, fueled by the insatiable demand for ivory in China and Southeast Asia, has plunged African forest elephant numbers by a whopping 86%, pushing them perilously close to extinction. However, the long-term impacts of this mass slaughter on the region’s trees remained largely unknown. In the years that followed, Deblauwe and his colleagues braided the Baka people’s knowledge about ebony and elephants with spatial, genetic and experimental data on ebony trees, providing the first convincing evidence of a mutualistic relationship between the two species, now published in a new study in the journal Science Advances. The researchers teased out why elephants play such a vital role in maintaining ebony trees in the forests. When elephants eat the large, pulpy ebony fruits and excrete the seeds, their dung protects those seeds from rodents and other animals that would otherwise eat and destroy them. Ebony fruits, with smooth pulp&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/as-forest-elephants-plummet-ebony-trees-decline-in-central-africas-rainforests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Brazil&#8217;s Forestry Code seeks to strengthen forest conservation, but controversies remain</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/brazils-forestry-code-seeks-to-strengthen-forest-conservation-but-controversies-remain/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Aug 2025 16:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Timothy J. Killeen]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mayra]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Perfect Storm in the Amazon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community Forests, Conservation, Deforestation, Forest Loss, Forests, Governance, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Sustainable Forest Management, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The most consequential of strategies regarding forests has been Brazil’s longstanding policy to obligate landholders to conserve forest and other natural habitats on their properties.  There have been three major iterations of the Brazilian Forest Code: 1936, 1965 and 2012. The first version declared the ‘forest’ to be a public good and recognized its essential [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The most consequential of strategies regarding forests has been Brazil’s longstanding policy to obligate landholders to conserve forest and other natural habitats on their properties.  There have been three major iterations of the Brazilian Forest Code: 1936, 1965 and 2012. The first version declared the ‘forest’ to be a public good and recognized its essential functions, which justify the role of the state in forest management. It provided guidelines for establishing protected area categories (parks and reserves) and clarified that forests on private property must be managed according to the principles outlined by the law. The Forest Code of 1965 increased the state’s power to regulate forest landscapes and the commercialization of forest products. It was subsequently modified four times (1978, 1984, 1989 and 2001), reflecting the evolving consensus about the need to conserve forests. The 1965 version introduced the concept of forest reserves on private property and defined two categories: (1) Area of Permanent Preservation (Área de Preservação Permanente or APP), which are deemed essential for maintaining ecosystem function, such as riparian corridors, lakesides, steep slopes and hilltops; and (2) Legal Reserve (Reserva Legal or RL), an additional area of native forest that must be protected in each landholding to ensure the conservation of natural habitats at the landscape scale. The area allocated as APP depends on topography and hydrology, but the dimensions of the RL were stipulated by the law. This value was originally set at 20% in the 1934 law, but was increased to 50% for Amazonian&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/brazils-forestry-code-seeks-to-strengthen-forest-conservation-but-controversies-remain/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-303665</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cross-border operation cracks down on environmental crimes in the Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/cross-border-operation-cracks-down-on-environmental-crimes-in-the-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Aug 2025 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mie Hoejris Dahl]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Crime, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Illegal Logging, Illegal Mining, Illegal Trade, Indigenous Peoples, Law Enforcement, Mining, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, timber trade, Wildlife, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[MEXICO CITY – About two dozen police officers, government officials and a data specialist sat side by side in a command center in northern Bogotá, Colombia’s capital. For two weeks, they reviewed live camera footage and tracked geolocations of police actions that were part of Operation Green Shield, a field initiative targeting cross-border environmental crime [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MEXICO CITY – About two dozen police officers, government officials and a data specialist sat side by side in a command center in northern Bogotá, Colombia’s capital. For two weeks, they reviewed live camera footage and tracked geolocations of police actions that were part of Operation Green Shield, a field initiative targeting cross-border environmental crime across the Amazon Rainforest. Criminal groups engaging in destructive, illicit activities have expanded across vast stretches of the Amazon over the past decade. They move largely unimpeded across national borders within the Amazon Rainforest, where state presence is often weak and government efforts remain fragmented and siloed. Between June 23 and July 6, 2025, Operation Green Shield relied on cross-border cooperation and technology to target illegal mining, wildlife trafficking, poaching, illegal logging, fuel smuggling and illegal waste. Yet environmental crime continues to proliferate across the Amazon Basin, experts warn. The operation deployed more than 1,500 police officers across the Amazon Basin in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. They made more than 90 arrests and more than 350 coordinated simultaneous raids, seizing assets worth more than $64 million. Police seized more than 310 tons of raw minerals and 61 tons of calcium oxide (used to separate metal from ores) from illegal mining sites. They recovered more than 2,100 live animals and 6,350 dead specimens, including birds, lizards and mammals. The National Police of Peru told Mongabay they had seized lizard heads, yellow-spotted river turtles (Podocnemis unifilis), Andean foxes (Lycalopex culpaeus), caimans, parrots, sloths and other species.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/cross-border-operation-cracks-down-on-environmental-crimes-in-the-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Where there’s political will, there’s a way to stop tropical deforestation, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/where-theres-political-will-theres-a-way-to-stop-tropical-deforestation-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Jul 2025 16:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Asia, Brazil, Global, Indonesia, South America, Southeast Asia, and Tropics]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Conservation, Conservation Technology, data, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Research, Satellite Imagery, Saving Rainforests, Tropical Conservation Science, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Political will is among the most important factors in preventing tropical deforestation, according to a group of experts surveyed for a new study — with strong political commitment often arising out of long-term “public pressure” and civil society advocacy for forest protection. The research, published July 22 in the journal Conservation Letters, turns the question [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Political will is among the most important factors in preventing tropical deforestation, according to a group of experts surveyed for a new study — with strong political commitment often arising out of long-term “public pressure” and civil society advocacy for forest protection. The research, published July 22 in the journal Conservation Letters, turns the question of what causes the loss of tropical forests “on its head,” looking instead at what prevents it, says co-author Rachael Garrett, a professor of conservation and development at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. Brazil and Indonesia have managed to slow deforestation rates amid pressure from rapidly expanding agriculture, leading the team to ask, “Why do these places still have so much forest?” Garrett says. Deforestation rates in Brazil, home to more tropical rainforest than any other country on Earth, dipped substantially between 2004 and 2012. And while annual forest loss there climbed back up in the 2010s, it has dropped again in recent years. Similarly, in Indonesia, the expansion of oil palm plantations devastated large swaths of forest in the past, but those rates, too, have slowed. Deforestation for an oil palm plantation in Borneo, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. Because Brazil and Indonesia boast so much forest, much research has focused on how to stop deforestation there. Often, those studies look at the impact of specific policies and mechanisms (such as Brazil’s Forest Code or Indonesia’s sustainable palm oil certification effort) and their relationship to deforestation declines measured by satellite analysis,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/where-theres-political-will-theres-a-way-to-stop-tropical-deforestation-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indigenous rubber bounces back for Amazon conservation and higher income</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/indigenous-rubber-bounces-back-for-amazon-conservation-and-higher-income/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Jul 2025 14:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sarah Brown]]>
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						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bioeconomy, Conservation, Culture, Drought, Economics, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Services, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Rainforests, Rubber, Saving Rainforests, Sustainability, Sustainable Forest Management, and Traditional Knowledge]]>
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							<![CDATA[Rubber tapping in the forest was once the main Amazonian economic activity, and now an Indigenous group is bringing it back.]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the Igarapé Lourdes Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon, community members gather to listen to José Palahv Gavião. An Indigenous teacher and cooperative leader, he speaks about the past and the future of Amazonian rubber. Rubber extracted from forest trees was a major Brazilian commodity in the 1800s and early 1900s. But for the Indigenous Gavião people of this part of Rondônia state, it also meant exploitation and suffering. Today, however, the community has reclaimed it as an opportunity for income and forest protection, especially for Indigenous youths. According to José, many young people seek better economic opportunities outside the community. But he says it’s important to balance these ambitions with efforts to protect the forest that sustains them. “In every meeting I go to, I always highlight this point: If we don’t give value to the rainforest’s products, it won’t take long before it’s gone,” José tells Mongabay. “It helps reverse that mindset. Because when a seed collector earns income from that tree, they won’t want to cut it down.” The Gavião of Rondônia worked under exploitative conditions imposed by rubber extractors following their first contact with outsiders. Due to land conflicts and the advance of external development projects, they eventually abandoned rubber tapping in the late 1980s. By then, rubber was being harvested at industrial scales from vast plantations of rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis), obviating the need to venture into the forest to collect it. The process of tapping rubber in the wild starts with making incisions&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/indigenous-rubber-bounces-back-for-amazon-conservation-and-higher-income/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Methods to recognize the Amazon’s isolated peoples: Interview with Antenor Vaz</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/methods-to-recognize-the-amazons-isolated-peoples-interview-with-antenor-vaz/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Jun 2025 14:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aimee Gabay]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Culture, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forests, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Interviews, Politics, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[Before 1988, Brazil had no contingency plans for unexpected encounters with Indigenous peoples living in isolation. If government officials, developers or explorers accidentally stumbled upon a camp, the protocol was to make contact — a move that can upend societies and spread deadly diseases. Driven by the devastating consequences of past contact, in 1987 the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Before 1988, Brazil had no contingency plans for unexpected encounters with Indigenous peoples living in isolation. If government officials, developers or explorers accidentally stumbled upon a camp, the protocol was to make contact — a move that can upend societies and spread deadly diseases. Driven by the devastating consequences of past contact, in 1987 the Brazilian state instituted a public policy that sought to respect and protect Indigenous peoples in isolation. The no-contact principle was then included in the country’s Federal Constitution in 1988, which set new standards that recognized Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination, their territories and “uses, customs and traditions.” That same year, Antenor Vaz, an international expert on recognition methodologies and protection policies for the isolated and initially contacted communities, was approached by Funai, Brazil’s federal agency for Indigenous affairs, with a job proposal. The agency had obtained information about unrecognized people in the Amazonian state of Rondônia. Vaz was asked to coordinate, alongside Francisco de Assis Costa, a special front to confirm the existence of the uncontacted people and to develop, for the first time, new procedures to record evidence of uncontacted people while maintaining the no-contact principle. He accepted. Antenor Vaz is an international expert in recognition methodologies and protection policies for Indigenous Peoples in Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI). Image courtesy of Antenor Vaz. This work eventually led to the recognition of the Massaco Indigenous Territory, which was the country’s first such territory designated for the exclusive occupation of Indigenous peoples of as yet&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/methods-to-recognize-the-amazons-isolated-peoples-interview-with-antenor-vaz/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New report reinforces critical role of Amazonian protected areas in climate fight</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/new-report-reinforces-critical-role-of-amazonian-protected-areas-in-climate-fight/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 May 2025 17:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
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						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Technology, data, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Carbon, Indigenous Peoples, Mapping, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Technology, Threats To Rainforests, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new report adds to the already overwhelming case that protected areas and Indigenous territories in the Amazon Rainforest serve as a critical carbon sink. The report, based on satellite data gathered by Earth imaging company Planet and analyzed by the nonprofit organization Amazon Conservation, reinforces the critical role of protected areas and Indigenous territories [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new report adds to the already overwhelming case that protected areas and Indigenous territories in the Amazon Rainforest serve as a critical carbon sink. The report, based on satellite data gathered by Earth imaging company Planet and analyzed by the nonprofit organization Amazon Conservation, reinforces the critical role of protected areas and Indigenous territories in climate action. Although protected areas and Indigenous territories cover only half of the biome, the data found that, as of 2022, they stored approximately 60% of the Amazon’s aboveground carbon, totaling 34.1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. In the decade starting 2013 — a period marked by rampant deforestation, wildfires and droughts — these stewarded areas also served as a significant carbon sink, absorbing 257 million metric tons of CO2. By contrast, the rest of the Amazon emitted a net 255 million metric tons of CO2 in the same 10-year period. “Protected areas and Indigenous territories almost represent an offset of the increasing emissions outside,” Matt Finer, lead author of the report and director of Amazon Conservation’s Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP), told Mongabay in a video interview. Finer has been studying deforestation and carbon stocks in the Amazon for years. Previously, he used data from NASA&#8217;s GEDI mission, which uses laser beams emitted from the International Space Station to map forests in 3D. However, this lidar data had gaps and didn’t provide data that spanned across the Amazon Rainforest. Since 2024, Finer has used satellite data from Planet’s Forest&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/new-report-reinforces-critical-role-of-amazonian-protected-areas-in-climate-fight/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Elusive wildlife shows up for photographer’s camera traps in Congo</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/elusive-wildlife-shows-up-for-photographers-camera-traps-in-congo/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Feb 2025 13:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Spoorthy RamanVictoria Schneider]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, and Republic of Congo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Cats, Conservation, Forests, Green, Leopards, National Parks, Parks, Predators, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Saving Rainforests, Small Cats, Solutions, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2023, Will Burrard-Lucas, a U.K.-based photographer who specializes in high-definition camera-trapping, set up cameras at four sites in the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, a 4,000-square-kilometer (1,545-square-mile) expanse of lowland rainforest in the Republic of Congo managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Camera traps are routinely used for scientific research in parks like Nouabalé-Ndoki, including [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2023, Will Burrard-Lucas, a U.K.-based photographer who specializes in high-definition camera-trapping, set up cameras at four sites in the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, a 4,000-square-kilometer (1,545-square-mile) expanse of lowland rainforest in the Republic of Congo managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Camera traps are routinely used for scientific research in parks like Nouabalé-Ndoki, including measuring wildlife abundance. Nominated as a World Heritage site, Nouabalé-Ndoki is home to significant populations of endangered mammals, including gorillas, chimpanzees and forest elephants. Closely related to African savanna elephants, the smaller, more elusive and critically endangered African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) roam Central Africa’s rainforests, holding them intact. African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), Nouabale-Ndoki NP. Image courtesy of Will Burrard-Lucas/WCS. Although the international trade in ivory has been banned since 1990, poaching for ivory remains an immediate threat in the region. Habitat loss is also a growing threat, as humans and elephants come into ever-closer contact, underscoring the importance of large, intact, protected areas like Nouabalé-Ndoki as refuges for wildlife. “For me, the ultimate thrill is to photograph predators, and my dream was to get a shot of the apex predator in Nouabalé-Ndoki: a leopard. These cats are very secretive and almost impossible to see in the thick rainforest,” said Burrard-Lucas, whose work in the park was part of a program to develop tourism here, carried out in partnership with Kamba Africa, the first tourism company to operate in Nouabalé-Ndoki, and supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Leopard (Panthera pardus), Nouabale-Ndoki&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/elusive-wildlife-shows-up-for-photographers-camera-traps-in-congo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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