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Kanamari Indigenous people carry out their work

The Amazon will reach tipping point if current trend of deforestation continues

Yvette Sierra Praeli 3 Oct 2022

Brazil 2022: Election, environment and the future of the Amazon

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 29 Sep 2022
Jair Bolsonaro with supporters

In the Amazon, Bolsonaro’s far right may retain power even if Lula wins

Jaqueline Sordi 26 Sep 2022
Jair Bolsonaro

Bolsonaro trails in polls, but his base in Congress looks likely to persist

Sarah Brown 13 Sep 2022
Macaws fly over the rainforests of Peru.

Illegal logging and trade in fine wood threaten Wampis communities in the Peruvian Amazon

Enrique Vera 9 Sep 2022

Crimes against the Amazon reverberate across Brazil, analysis shows

Elizabeth Oliveira 31 Aug 2022

Bolsonaro agenda gets a lift from dominance of ‘new right’ in Congress

Diego Junqueira, from Repórter Brasil, Gisele Lobato and Marina Rossi 29 Aug 2022
A framed photo of Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

In Brazil, an Indigenous land defender’s unsolved killing is the deadly norm

Sarah Brown 27 Jun 2022
Two men cutting down a tree.

Consumer countries mull best approach to end deforestation abroad

John Cannon 17 Jun 2022

A new index measures the human impacts on Amazon waters

Ronaldo Ribeiro | Letícia Klein | Kevin Damasio | Laura Kurtzberg (Ambiental Media) 5 May 2022
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

‘Giving up’: Amazon is losing its resilience under human pressure, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2022
NASA Landsat satellite image showing the Amazonian region where the activity occurred, according to IBAMA.

Chemical defoliants sprayed on Amazon rainforest to facilitate deforestation in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 19 Jan 2022
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021

Exports of threatened species’ timber boomed under Bolsonaro, probe finds

Ciro Barros/Agência Pública 14 Dec 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Mongabay reporter sued in what appears to be a pattern of legal intimidation by Peruvian cacao company

Mongabay.com 10 Dec 2021

Betty Rubio, the tech-savvy Kichwa leader defending threatened territory

Cristina Fernández Aguilar 10 Dec 2021

Brazil leads Amazon in forest loss this year, Indigenous and protected areas hold out

Liz Kimbrough 6 Oct 2021

Illegal logging reaches Amazon’s untouched core, ‘terrifying’ research shows

Juliana Ennes 15 Sep 2021

As illegal logging route in Peru nears Brazil, Indigenous groups warn of calamity

Ana Ionova 9 Sep 2021

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Sep 2021

Planned Brazil-Peru highway threatens one of Earth’s most biodiverse places

Fabiano Maisonnave 22 Jul 2021

Timber troubles fell Ricardo Salles, Brazil’s environment minister

Juliana Ennes 24 Jun 2021

Brazil’s environment minister faces second probe linked to illegal timber

Shanna Hanbury 4 Jun 2021
Global Forest Watch tree cover loss 2001-2021 set on Planet imagery from Jun-Sep 2020.

Science refutes United Cacao’s claim it didn’t deforest Peruvian Amazon

John Cannon 25 May 2021

‘Amazônia must live on’: Photographer Sebastião Salgado returns home with his new book

Peter Speetjens 20 May 2021

Brazil’s environment minister investigated for alleged illegal timber sales

Mongabay.com 19 May 2021

Karipuna people sue Brazil government for alleged complicity in land grabs

Shanna Hanbury 6 May 2021

‘Zero illegal deforestation’ – One more Bolsonaro distortion (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 3 May 2021

Criticizing Brazil over Amazon conservation will likely backfire (commentary)

Andrea Garcia, Gustavo Macedo 3 May 2021

Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award

Thais Borges and Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2020

Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park

Ana Ionova 3 Dec 2020
An uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon photographed in . © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI.

2020 fires endangering uncontacted Amazon Indigenous groups

Liz Kimbrough 28 Oct 2020

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