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Of concrete and corruption: Resistance kills Andes Amazon dams

Saul Elbein 24 Jan 2019

Community-based conservation offers hope for Amazon’s giant South American turtle

Jenny Gonzales 9 Jan 2019

Peccary’s disappearance foreboding for other Mesoamerican wildlife

Mongabay 20 Dec 2018

‘Amazon Besieged’: Q&A with Mongabay contributor Sue Branford about new book

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

Fate of the Amazon is on the ballot in Brazil’s presidential election (commentary)

Aline C. Soterroni, Fernando M. Ramos, Michael Obersteiner, Stephen Polasky 17 Oct 2018

The ‘Godfather of Biodiversity’ on why it’s time to manage Earth as a system

Mike Gaworecki 5 Sep 2018
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A river runs through it — and keeps the Amazon’s bird species diverse

Claire Asher 24 Aug 2018

New orchid species discovered in Peruvian Amazon

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2018

Camera trap videos help protect biodiversity of Bigal River Biological Reserve in Ecuador

Mike Gaworecki 9 Aug 2018

Latam Eco Review: Chocolate as a conservation strategy

Mongabay.com 29 Jun 2018

A most unlikely hope: How the companies that destroyed the world’s forests can save them (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 28 Jun 2018

Hunting, fishing causing dramatic decline in Amazon river dolphins

Claire Asher 13 Jun 2018
Sea lamprey caught during testing of a fish passage at the Afsluitdijk dike in the Netherlands. Image ©Ben Griffioen-WUR/IMARES.

Fish tales: Six amazing journeys to celebrate World Fish Migration Day

John Waldman 20 Apr 2018

Camera traps nab crop-raiding animals near farms in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2018

Cerrado: appreciation grows for Brazil’s savannah, even as it vanishes

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 12 Mar 2018

Jaguar numbers rising at field sites, WCS says

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2018

Analysis: the Brazilian Supreme Court’s New Forest Code ruling

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 7 Mar 2018

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Tom Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018

Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Claire Asher 28 Feb 2018

Belo Monte legacy: harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction (photo story)

Maximo Anderson and Aaron Vincent Elkaim 26 Feb 2018

Venezuela: can a failing state protect its environment and its people?

Glenn Scherer 1 Feb 2018

Pope’s message to Amazonia inspires hope, but will it bring action?

Justin Catanoso 22 Jan 2018

Pope set to visit site of deforestation, indigenous struggle in Peru

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2018

Ancient human sites may have distorted our understanding of the Amazon’s natural ecology

Kimber Price 16 Jan 2018

Study: Amazon dams are disrupting ecologically vital flood pulses

Claire Salisbury 10 Jan 2018

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Dec 2017

Selective logging reduces biodiversity, disrupts Amazon ecosystems: study

Claire Asher 22 Dec 2017

Amazon dam impacts underestimated due to overlooked vine growth: study

Claire Salisbury 20 Dec 2017

Forest Code falls short in protecting Amazonian fish

Mongabay.com 7 Dec 2017

Catastrophic fires sweep through iconic Brazilian national park

Anna Sophie Gross 2 Nov 2017

Amazonian manatee migration at risk from disruption by proposed dams

Claire Salisbury 19 Oct 2017

Eat less meat, save species and ecosystems, says WWF UK

Mongabay.com 11 Oct 2017

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