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Community study sheds light on wild cat killings in Brazil’s central Amazon

Trouble in the tropics: The terrestrial insects of Brazil are in decline

Amazon reserve for uncontacted people moving forward amid battle over oil fields

How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the east changes the equation

More droughts are coming, and the Amazon can’t keep up: Study

Crimes against the Amazon reverberate across Brazil, analysis shows

We’ve crossed the land use change planetary boundary, but solutions await

First-of-its-kind freshwater mangroves discovered in Brazil’s Amazon Delta

‘Lost’ Amazonian cities hint at how to build urban landscapes without harming nature

Illegal mining threatens one of the last forest links between the Andes and Ecuador’s Amazon

Repeated fires are silencing the Amazon, says new acoustic monitoring study

Caribbean incursion into Amazon sparked a flurry of life, with lessons for the future

Researchers compile largest-ever photo database of Amazon wildlife

“Indigenous people are fighting to protect a natural equilibrium”: Q&A with Patricia Gualinga

A new index measures the human impacts on Amazon waters

Ecuador’s Pastaza province, Indigenous groups collaborate on forest conservation

Moore Foundation pledges extra $300m to boost conservation of Amazon

Gold used in Italian wedding rings linked to Amazon deforestation

Chocolate frog? New burrowing frog species unearthed in Amazon’s rare peatlands

In a biodiversity haven, mining drives highest ever recorded levels of mercury

Sabino Gualinga, Amazon shaman and defender of the ‘living forest,’ passes away

Mongabay’s Top 10 Indigenous News Stories of 2021

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

California is the world’s number one importer of Amazonian oil, report finds

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Amazon mining threatens dozens of uncontacted Indigenous groups, study shows

Fires in the Amazon have already impacted 90% of plant and animal species

Domestic bushmeat consumption an “urgent” threat to migratory mammals, U.N. says

‘Join us for the Amazon,’ Indigenous leaders tell IUCN in push for protection

Brazil punching below its weight in getting forest products to the world

Shoe-leather science helps quadruple protected area in Peruvian Amazon

New index measuring rainforest vulnerability to sound alarm on tipping points

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