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Saving old-growth forests: Q&A with Amazon Watch’s Leila Salazar-López

Maxwell Radwin 22 Apr 2022

Canadian miners get high-level lobbying boost for Brazilian Amazon projects

Caio de Freitas Paes/Agência Pública 20 Apr 2022

New report pieces together toll of environmental damage in Venezuela in 2021

Maxwell Radwin 20 Apr 2022

Brazil Congress fast-tracks ‘death package’ bill to mine on Indigenous lands

Sarah Brown 15 Mar 2022

Gold used in Italian wedding rings linked to Amazon deforestation

Lucas Ferraz and Guilherme Henrique 8 Mar 2022

In a biodiversity haven, mining drives highest ever recorded levels of mercury

John Cannon 28 Feb 2022

From Wall Street to the Amazon: Big capital funds mining-driven deforestation

Jenny Gonzales 22 Feb 2022
Yanomami community in northern Brazil saying ‘Go away, mining companies’. Image by Victor Moriyama/ISA.

Amazon to Alps: Swiss gold imports from Brazil tread a legal minefield

Fernanda Wenzel, Olivier Christe 21 Jan 2022

Mongabay’s 10 hardest-hitting investigations of 2021

Maxwell Radwin 29 Dec 2021

Amazon mining threatens dozens of uncontacted Indigenous groups, study shows

Shanna Hanbury 1 Dec 2021

Top Brazil gold exporter leaves a trail of criminal probes and illegal mines

Guilherme Henrique and Ana Magalhães/Repórter Brasil 10 Nov 2021

In Peru’s Amazon, deforestation and crime sweep through Indigenous communities

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Nov 2021

Ecuador’s consultation process for Indigenous lands comes under the microscope

Kimberley Brown 4 Nov 2021

Bolsonaro evades genocide blame amid Indigenous deaths by invaders, COVID-19

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Oct 2021

$200 million in gold extracted in Amazon mine through illegal licenses

Hyury Potter 25 Oct 2021

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Sep 2021

Rich countries may be buying illegal gold that’s driving Amazon destruction

Juliana Ennes 3 Sep 2021

New artificial intelligence tool helps forecast Amazon deforestation

Juliana Ennes 9 Aug 2021

333 people rescued from slavery in Brazil mines since 2008, exclusive report shows

Maurício Angelo 3 Aug 2021

Nearly 1 million km2 of intact forests menaced by extractives, study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 26 Jul 2021

Brazil prosecutors seek ban on all gold mining in hard-hit Amazonian region

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Jul 2021

Global demand for manganese puts Kayapó Indigenous land under pressure

Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 14 Jul 2021

Mining exposes Indigenous women in Latin America to high mercury levels

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 1 Jul 2021

Exhibition showcases Claudia Andujar’s half-century fight for the Yanomami

Sue Branford 24 Jun 2021

Under assault at home, Indigenous leaders get a violent welcome in Brasília

Fernanda Wenzel 24 Jun 2021

With Indigenous rights at stake in Brasília, a territory is attacked in Paraty

Ana Ionova 18 Jun 2021

Illegal miners block Indigenous leaders headed to protests in Brazil’s capital

Ana Ionova 14 Jun 2021

What’s the cost of illegal mining in Brazil’s Amazon? A new tool calculates it

Shanna Hanbury 11 Jun 2021
Small-scale deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

In less than a generation, legal mining in Colombia deforested over 120,000 hectares

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 8 Jun 2021
Waimiri Atroari Indigenous people in Brazilian Amazon

World’s richest tin mine pollutes rivers serving Amazon Indigenous villages

Maurício Angelo 4 Jun 2021

Illegal miners fire shots, burn homes in Munduruku Indigenous Reserve

Ana Ionova 28 May 2021

Brazil court orders illegal miners booted from Yanomami Indigenous Reserve

Shanna Hanbury 21 May 2021

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