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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

Mining and logging threaten Bolivia’s newest protected area

Iván Paredes Tamayo 24 Oct 2024

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

Shanna Hanbury 14 Oct 2024
Nemonte Nenquimo in one of her family's forest gardens near the village of Nemonpare in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

‘Indigenous women in the Amazon must be empowered’: Interview with Nemonte Nenquimo

Astrid Arellano 7 Oct 2024

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

Timothy J. Killeen 4 Oct 2024

Brazil cracks down on illegal gold mining, sparking anger in the Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 27 Sep 2024
An Indigenous group in a boat in the Ucayali River.

Report links killings to environmental crimes in Peru’s Amazon

Aimee Gabay 12 Sep 2024
Holding their communities' titles are Apu Juan Jarana Pérez from San Alberto de Morona community, Apa Elizethy Cruz Ponciano from San Jose de Yanayacu community, and Pedro Alcidez Pérez Peña from Sargento Lores de Camote Isla community. Image courtesy of Sacha Cine/Rainforest Foundation US.

Record number of Indigenous land titles granted in Peru via innovative process (commentary)

Miguel Guimaraes Vasquez, Wendy Pineda 6 Sep 2024
Isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon. Image courtesy of Survival International.

Peruvian logger loses FSC label after latest clash with isolated Mashco Piro

Dan Collyns 4 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, Hugo Echeverría 29 Aug 2024

At the ‘Biodiversity Olympics,’ scientists work to democratize rainforest tech

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 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
A man walks past solar panels.

No plans, no progress make Peru’s energy transition uncertain

Yvette Sierra Praeli 1 Aug 2024

Hydropower dams threaten fishing communities on the Amazon

Bruno Kelly, Kevin Damasio 31 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

To host 2025 climate summit, Brazil will carve up an Amazonian reserve

Sarah Brown 23 Jul 2024

Brasil, Venezuela and Peru: the geography of industrial metals

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Jul 2024

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

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

Interview with the award-winning directors of ‘We Are Guardians’

Romi Castagnino 17 May 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

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