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Reintroduction project brings golden parakeets back to the skies of Brazil’s Belém

Sarah Brown 26 Jun 2024

New study reaffirms Indigenous lands key to mitigating climate change in Brazil

Sarah Sax 25 Jun 2024
Commercial cattle ranching is banned on Indigenous territories in Brazil, but a yearlong Mongabay investigation reveals that large plots in the Arariboia Indigenous Territory have been used for ranching amid a record-high number of killings of the region’s Indigenous Guajajara inhabitants.

Revealed: Illegal cattle ranching booms in Arariboia territory during deadly year for Indigenous Guajajara

Karla Mendes 19 Jun 2024
Located in the Amapá state, the second-largest red angelim ever found is 85.4 meters (280 feet) tall and has a circumference of 9.8 meters (32 feet). Image courtesy of João de Matos Filho / Prodemac.

Experts aim to protect one of Brazil’s giant emblematic tree species

Jenny Gonzales 18 Jun 2024
Cattle by the side of the road in Brazilian Amazon. Image by Kate Evans/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

The harsh, dangerous gig of seizing thousands of illegal cattle in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 13 Jun 2024

Weak banking regulations leave two-thirds of Amazon vulnerable to oil and gas

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jun 2024

Extractive industries look at degraded land to avoid further deforestation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 15 May 2024
A harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja)

Deforestation haunts top Peruvian reserve and its Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 24 Apr 2024
A cattle ranch in a deforeated area.

A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Apr 2024
An uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the Brazilian state of Acre.

Cross-border Indigenous efforts in Peru & Brazil aim to protect isolated groups

Aimee Gabay 18 Apr 2024

A short walk through Amazon time: Interview with archaeologist Anna Roosevelt

Peter Speetjens 10 Apr 2024

How to reward tropical forest conservation: Interview with Tasso Azevedo

Jenny Gonzales 22 Mar 2024

Mineral commodities: the wealth that generates most impacts in the Pan Amazon | Chapter 5 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Mar 2024

Reforestation and restoration: Two ways to make the Pan Amazon greener

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Mar 2024

Reconciling conservation agriculture and agroforestry for sustainability

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Mar 2024

Squeezed-out Amazon smallholders seek new frontiers in Brazil’s Roraima state

Sam Cowie and Rodrigo Pedroso and Avener Prado 12 Mar 2024

Land irrigation as an obstacle to agricultural intensification in Mato Grosso

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Mar 2024

What is most convenient in land distribution?

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Mar 2024
The Bolivian Amazon has been affected by illegal mining and oil incursion.

In the Amazon, what happens to undesignated public lands?

Timothy J. Killeen 29 Feb 2024
A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,

Ecuador, Colombia and the Guiana Shield join the planning of sustainable land use

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Feb 2024
A boat carrying potable water from Macapá city, Amapá’s capital, by the government is stranded because of the siltation of the Amazon River in front of Livramento community.

Locals at the mouth of the Amazon River get a salty taste of climate change

Rodrigo Pedroso, Rudja Santos 26 Feb 2024

Low implementation of land use maps in Andean countries affects conservation outcomes and agricultural productivity

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Feb 2024

Land use planning helps advance conservation in Brazil

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Feb 2024

The creation of settlements in the Ecuadorian Amazon | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Feb 2024
Recently cleared land for an oil palm plantation in Peru.

Critics decry controversial bill that loosens deforestation restrictions in Peru

Aimee Gabay 9 Feb 2024

A particular agrarian reform process in Peru | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Feb 2024

How to achieve the regularization of rural land in private properties in Peru? | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Feb 2024
A storm in the Bolivian Chaco.

A coalition created by a demand for land is splintered by a competition for territory | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Feb 2024
Wetlands in the San Miguelito area, Bolivia.

How Bolivia pioneered agrarian reform in South America

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Jan 2024
A harvester harvesting soy in Brazil.

Meet the think tank behind the agribusiness’ legislative wins in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jan 2024

Terra Legal program to regularize small property owners | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Jan 2024

INCRA as a regulatory agency | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Jan 2024

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