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Brazil’s actual forest-related CO2 emissions could blow by Paris pledge

Claire Asher 19 Apr 2018
The vice president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE), Zoila Castillo confronts a policeman demanding that she be let into the government palace of Carondelet to personally deliver to the president the order they prepared on March 12, 2018. Photo by Jonatan Rosas.

Indigenous Amazonian women demand end to extraction

Kimberley Brown 22 Mar 2018

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Tom Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018

Brazil high court Forest Code ruling largely bad for environment, Amazon: NGOs

Sue Branford 1 Mar 2018
Photo courtesy of the Environmental Research Agency (EIA).

Moment of truth: Study reveals high percentage of illegal Peruvian timber exports

Yvette Sierra Praeli 13 Feb 2018

Pope set to visit site of deforestation, indigenous struggle in Peru

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2018

Record Amazon fires, intensified by forest degradation, burn indigenous lands

Zoe Sullivan 18 Jan 2018

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Dec 2017

Selective logging reduces biodiversity, disrupts Amazon ecosystems: study

Claire Asher 22 Dec 2017

EU-LatAm trade deal good for agribusiness; bad for Amazon, climate – analysis

Sue Branford 18 Dec 2017

Peru: the man who overcomes fear to defend the forest

Jack Lo Lau 27 Nov 2017

Videos detail corruption in massive illegal Peruvian timber case

Genevieve Belmaker 14 Nov 2017

From carbon sink to source: Brazil puts Amazon, Paris goals at risk

Claire Salisbury 9 Nov 2017

As negotiators meet in Bonn, Brazil’s carbon emissions rise

Jenny Gonzales 7 Nov 2017

Indigenous lands at risk, as Amazon sellout by Brazil’s Temer continues (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 6 Nov 2017

Brazilian police nab Amazon timber thieves who faked forest credits

Jenny Gonzales 27 Oct 2017

Two scientists and a NASA astronaut just biked across the Brazilian Amazon and want to tell you about it

Mike Gaworecki 25 Oct 2017

Temer guts Brazil’s slavery law, to the applause of elite ruralists

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Oct 2017

Birdwatching poised to take flight in Colombia, study reveals

John Cannon 10 Oct 2017

Amazon deforestation linked to McDonald’s and British retail giants

Anna Sophie Gross, Daniel Gross 4 Oct 2017

Brazil: a world champion in political and environmental devastation (commentary)

Giem Guimaraes 29 Sep 2017

Indigenous victory: Brazil’s Temer decrees 1.2 million Amazon reserve

Sue Branford 18 Sep 2017

Zero tolerance of deforestation likely only way to save Amazon gateway

Claire Asher 7 Sep 2017

Intact forests crucial to Amazon ecosystem resilience, stable climate

Claire Salisbury 28 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Indians on the march in last ditch effort to stop land theft

Sue Branford 14 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Aug 2017

Study links most Amazon deforestation to 128 slaughterhouses

Eduardo Pegurier 27 Jul 2017

Soy King Blairo Maggi wields power over Amazon’s fate, say critics

Jenny Gonzales 13 Jul 2017

Temer signs law that could see millions of acres lost in the Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 13 Jul 2017

Norway vexed as Brazil sends mixed message on Amazon forest protection

Jenny Gonzales 27 Jun 2017

Brazil evicts 80 rural peasant families, awards land thieves parcel

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 21 Jun 2017

Brazil on verge of legitimizing Amazon land theft on a grand scale, warn NGOs

Mauricio Torres and Isabel Harari, Sue Branford 15 Jun 2017

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