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A tiger-legged monkey tree frog in Peruvian Amazon.

New report reinforces critical role of Amazonian protected areas in climate fight

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 May 2025
Jaguar siblings in Poconé, Brazil. Image by Bernard Dupont via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Study suggests there are more jaguars in the Amazon than previously thought

Shanna Hanbury 1 May 2025
Members of the international study team pull a peat core from a wetland in the Colombian Amazon.

New research finds substantial peat deposits in Colombia’s conflicted Amazon

Erik Iverson 23 Apr 2025
The pied tamarin (Saguinus bicolor) is one of the world’s most endangered monkeys. Image courtesy of Diogo Lagroteria.

New refuge helps protect Amazon’s most endangered monkey, but gaps remain

Shanna Hanbury 18 Apr 2025
Munduruku in the Tapajós river, next to Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land, home to the Munduruku people, Pará state, Brazil. Photo by Valdemir Cunha / Greenpeace.

What pushes Indigenous Munduruku people to mine their land in Brazil’s Amazon?

Aimee Gabay 8 Apr 2025

Despite improvements, governance in the Pan Amazon falls short

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Apr 2025
The first Indigenous man from the Mamoriá Grande area to contact non-Indigenous society received medical assistance at a Funai base in early February. Image courtesy of Funai and Sesai (Indigenous Health Secretariat).

Pressure bears down around uncontacted tribes at the edge of Brazil’s arc of deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel 21 Mar 2025
Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) near the Tapajós river, next to Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land, home to the Munduruku people, Pará state, Brazil.

Officials share strategies to stop spread of illegal miners from Munduruku land

Aimee Gabay 18 Mar 2025

Land distribution in the Pan Amazon is tainted by corruption

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Feb 2025
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. Image © Christian Braga / Greenpeace.

Pause to USAID already having impacts on community conservation in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 24 Feb 2025
On February 12, activists and riverside residents posted on Guajará Bay in Belém, the host city for this year’s UN climate conference COP30, with banners saying ‘President Lula, don’t trade the Amazon for oil’. Image © Eliseu Pereira / 350.org

Lula pushes oil drilling at mouth of Amazon despite climate risks

Sarah Brown 21 Feb 2025

Wild Targets

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2025

The culture of corruption across the Amazon Basin 

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Feb 2025
Amazonian manatees at a rescue center in Peru.

Amazonian manatees are gardeners of the forests, research shows (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 4 Feb 2025
This rescue center saves Rio's wildlife from poachers

This rescue center saves Rio’s wildlife from poachers | Wild Targets

Julia Lima 22 Jan 2025
An aerial image shows rainforest fragmented by cattle ranching.

Study shows degradation changes a forest’s tree profile and its carbon storage

Peter Speetjens 22 Jan 2025

Mongabay documentary spotlights Indigenous alliance to protect Amazon headwaters

Shanna Hanbury 16 Jan 2025

Conservation and the rise of corporations in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Jan 2025

Weak laws on native seeds undermine Brazil reforestation efforts: Study

Shanna Hanbury 15 Nov 2024
Illegal mining in the Munduruku Indigenous Territory in 2020. Image by Marizilda Cruppe/Amazônia Real/Amazon Watch.

Brazil sets a date to remove illegal miners from Munduruku land, more details await

Jenny Gonzales 6 Nov 2024

Most countries miss biodiversity pledge deadline to protect 30% of Earth

Shanna Hanbury 17 Oct 2024

Brazil upgrades park to protect Amazon’s tallest tree, allows tourism

Shanna Hanbury 14 Oct 2024

The people who make up the Pan-Amazonian melting pot: regional demographics

Timothy J. Killeen 4 Oct 2024

Amazon lakes overheat as record drought drives dolphin deaths

Bobby Bascomb 6 Sep 2024
A channel-billed toucan in Yasuní National Park.

Could the ‘rights of nature’ save Yasuní and keep its oil in the ground? (commentary)

Mari Margil and Hugo Echeverría 29 Aug 2024

The challenge of the next oil and gas investments further in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Aug 2024
An Amazonian manatee in a zoo.

As Amazonian rivers recede under drought, manatees are left exposed to poaching

Sarah Brown 27 Aug 2024

One year after oil referendum, what’s next for Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park?

Aimee Gabay 20 Aug 2024
Luís Adriano Nascimento, chemist and vice-coordinator of the Laboratório de Óleos da Amazônia (Amazon Oils Laboratory, LOA), stands at a lab bench with a wide collection of Amazonian fruits and seeds used to make oils, biofuels and bioplastics.

Raw materials become high-value bioeconomy goods at an Amazon science park

Sarah Brown 6 Aug 2024

Study looks at how various tree species dominated different parts of the Amazon

Bobby Bascomb 5 Aug 2024
Hymenaea courbaril

Time for a copal comeback? The natural resin could boost Amazon’s economy

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jul 2024
Adriane Esquivel Muelbert and Evan Gora examine a fallen giant tree in the Amazon, hoping to identify hints of its cause of death.

Are the Amazon’s biggest trees dying? Forest coroners investigate

Daniel Grossman 29 Jul 2024

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