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As habitat degradation threatens Amazon species, one region offers hope

Taran Volckhausen 14 May 2020

Brazil opens 38,000 square miles of indigenous lands to outsiders

Mauricio Torres, Sue Branford 8 May 2020

Brazil sacks officials who curbed deforestation on Amazon indigenous lands

Jenny Gonzales 5 May 2020

Flooding devastates Ecuador’s indigenous communities in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 1 May 2020

Satellite data show Amazon rainforest likely drier, more fire-prone this year

Shanna Hanbury 23 Apr 2020
IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental regulatory agency, and Federal Police investigate illegal logging in the Arara Indigenous Reserve in Pará state. IBAMA, which saw its budget slashed by half under President Temer, is increasingly unable to respond to indigenous reserve invasions. Image courtesy of IBAMA.

Fight against Amazon destruction at stake after enforcement chief fired

Sam Cowie 21 Apr 2020
Celebration of the Ashaninka people in the Kampa of the Amônia River Indigenous Reserve, by the Peruvian border. Image by Arison Jardim/The Ashaninka of the Amônia River Association.

$3 million and an official apology: Brazil’s Ashaninka get unprecedented compensation for deforestation on their land

Naira Hofmeister 16 Apr 2020
Aerial view of Javari river in the Brazilian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler

In Brazil, COVID-19 outbreak paves way for invasion of indigenous lands

Sam Cowie 10 Apr 2020
Zezico Rodrigues Guajarara, a teacher from the Arariboia indigenous reserve in Maranhão state, was found shot dead on March 31. He is the fifth Guajarara leader to be killed since November 2019. Image reproduced from his Facebook profile. 

Calls for justice after latest murder of indigenous Guajajara leader in Brazil

Sam Cowie 3 Apr 2020
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

China’s revised forest law could boost efforts to fight illegal logging

Ashoka Mukpo 19 Mar 2020

Brazil drastically reduces controls over suspicious Amazon timber exports

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 11 Mar 2020

Bolsonaro sends Congress bill to open indigenous lands to mining, fossil fuels

Jan Rocha 7 Feb 2020

Use it, don’t lose it: Q&A with Amazon eco scientist Marcelino Guedes

Débora Pinto 29 Jan 2020

NGOs demand inquiry into Environment Minister aid to Amazon land grabbers

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jan 2020

Impending Amazon tipping point puts biome and world at risk, scientists warn

Shanna Hanbury 27 Jan 2020

Brazil’s Bolsonaro creates Amazon Council and Environmental Police force

Jan Rocha 24 Jan 2020

Antonio Donato Nobre: “The forest is sick and losing its carbon-sequestration capacity”

Sibélia Zanon 23 Dec 2019

Brazil on the precipice: from environmental leader to despoiler (2010-2020)

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 23 Dec 2019

Experts blame Bolsonaro for surge in deforestation, warn of worse to come

Liz Kimbrough 25 Nov 2019

Enforce Brazilian laws to curb criminal Amazon deforestation: study

Karla Mendes, Elisângela Mendonça 4 Nov 2019

‘Guardian of the Forest’ ambushed and murdered in Brazilian Amazon

Karla Mendes 2 Nov 2019

China, EU are importing soybeans from unregistered Brazil farms: report

Shanna Hanbury 30 Oct 2019

Indigenous and riverine communities unite to fight Amazon invaders

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 29 Oct 2019

As 2019 Amazon fires die down, Brazilian deforestation roars ahead

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Oct 2019
Fires burning in the state of Pará, Brazil on August 16, 2019. Courtesy of Planet Labs Inc.

Brazilian Amazon fires scientifically linked to 2019 deforestation: report

Karla Mendes 11 Sep 2019

State governors support Bolsonaro’s Amazon mining, agribusiness plans

Jenny Gonzales 9 Sep 2019

Giant Norway pension fund weighs Brazil divestment over Amazon deforestation

Zoe Sullivan 3 Sep 2019

Bolsonaro expresses ‘love’ for Amazon as it burns, offers no policy shift

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 26 Aug 2019
At the end of the 2018 fire season in the Amazon Forest, Greenpeace captured this image of forest burning in the Brazilian state of Para. CREDIT: © Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace

Amazon rainforest fires leave São Paulo in the dark

Ignacio Amigo 21 Aug 2019
Margay (Leopardus wiedii)

Precision conservation: High tech to the rescue in the Peruvian Amazon

Lisa Palmer 15 Aug 2019

Germany cuts $39.5 million in environmental funding to Brazil

Karla Mendes 13 Aug 2019

Future of Amazon deforestation data in doubt as research head sacked

Karla Mendes 5 Aug 2019

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