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Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with Indigenous people.

From deforestation to restoration: Policy plots path to Amazon recovery

André Schröder 6 Jan 2023

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022
Aerial photo of gold mining.

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2022

Alexandra Popescu 29 Dec 2022
Acampamento Terra Livre Indigenous protest in Brazil, April 6, 2022. Image by Mídia NINJA Via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Top 10 notable Indigenous stories of 2022

Latoya Abulu 28 Dec 2022
Aerial photo of riparian forest and deforestation for soy.

To be effective, zero-deforestation pledges need a critical mass, study shows

Sarah Sax 30 Nov 2022
Waikas, Raraima, Brazil September 1st 2022 Robervaldo a young Yek'wana that used to work in a Garimpo. Photographed in his community Waikas near the venezuelian border. Photo © Victor Raison 2022, all rights reserved.

Indigenous youths lured by the illegal mines destroying their Amazon homeland

Victor Raison; Jean-Mathieu Albertini 30 Nov 2022
Marina Silva.

Brazil’s new environmental future under Lula: Q&A with Marina Silva

Jaqueline Sordi 14 Nov 2022
A member of an indigenous community in Putumayo watches over his community’s territory. Photo courtesy of Michelle Carrere.

As gangs battle over Peru’s drug trafficking routes, communities and forest are at risk

Michelle Carrere 8 Nov 2022
Jair Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro loses election but finds big support in Amazon Arc of Deforestation

André Schröder 3 Nov 2022
A white-nosed saki.

To save threatened Amazon primates in Brazil, turn them into the main attraction

Sean Mowbray 27 Oct 2022
Jaguar skin for sale at the Belen market

A fast-growing pipeline: The Amazon-to-Southeast Asia wildlife trade

Sharon Guynup 18 Oct 2022
A jaguar swims across a river.

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

Sean Mowbray 14 Oct 2022
A Charonias theano butterfly

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

Jeremy Hance 5 Oct 2022
A recently contacted Machiguenga girlon the outskirts of Manu National Park in Cusco. Image by Ronald Reategui.

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

Dimitri Selibas 30 Sep 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

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

Liz Kimbrough 20 Sep 2022

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

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2022

Crimes against the Amazon reverberate across Brazil, analysis shows

Elizabeth Oliveira 31 Aug 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

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

Liz Kimbrough 4 Aug 2022
Franco Ivan Macedo Tafur, a member of the Amazon mangrove research team

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

Liz Kimbrough 20 Jul 2022

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

Kimberley Brown 15 Jun 2022
View of the Nangaritza valley from near Las Orquideas. Photo by Andrew Neil via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

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

Jackeline Beltrán 10 Jun 2022
A blue-grey tanager

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

Liz Kimbrough 26 May 2022
A frog in Peruvian Amazon.

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

Fernanda Wenzel 24 May 2022
A spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), also known as the Andean bear.

Researchers compile largest-ever photo database of Amazon wildlife

Liz Kimbrough 20 May 2022

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

Astrid Arellano 6 May 2022

A new index measures the human impacts on Amazon waters

Ronaldo Ribeiro | Letícia Klein | Kevin Damasio | Laura Kurtzberg (Ambiental Media) 5 May 2022
Achiote trees in a Kwicha community in Pastaza province

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

Dimitri Selibas 11 Apr 2022
The Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

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

Laurel Sutherland 10 Mar 2022

Gold used in Italian wedding rings linked to Amazon deforestation

Lucas Ferraz and Guilherme Henrique 8 Mar 2022

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

Liz Kimbrough 28 Feb 2022

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

John Cannon 28 Feb 2022

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

Kimberley Brown 23 Feb 2022

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