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Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2022

Fighting wildlife trafficking in Peru: Q&A with prosecutor Alberto Caraza

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

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

First-ever regional court case involving rights of uncontacted peoples awaits verdict

Brazil may fail Paris Agreement targets by 137% if Bolsonaro stays in office

Conservatives tighten grip on Brazil Congress, hampering environmental agenda

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

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

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

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

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

Crimes against the Amazon reverberate across Brazil, analysis shows

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

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

Consumer countries mull best approach to end deforestation abroad

A new index measures the human impacts on Amazon waters

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

Chemical defoliants sprayed on Amazon rainforest to facilitate deforestation in Brazil

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Timber troubles fell Ricardo Salles, Brazil’s environment minister

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

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

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

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