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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
Indigenous protest

Mongabay’s Top 10 Indigenous News Stories of 2021

Latoya Abulu 30 Dec 2021
An official from Operation Green Brazil surveys a deforested and burned landscape. Image by Ibama via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

‘Rampant forest destruction’ wracks reserve as cattle ranching advances in Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 29 Dec 2021
Oil barrel Amazon

California is the world’s number one importer of Amazonian oil, report finds

Victoria Schneider 23 Dec 2021

Slashed forest protections ignites land grabbing frenzy in Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 22 Dec 2021

Global ecosystem restoration progress: How and who’s tracking it?

Mike Gaworecki 22 Dec 2021

Illegal roads pierce Indigenous reserve, national parks in Colombian Amazon

Santiago Luque Pérez 20 Dec 2021
Cattle in Brazil

European supermarkets say Brazilian beef is off the menu

Ashoka Mukpo 16 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

Indigenous groups unveil plan to protect 80% of the Amazon in Peru and Ecuador

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 3 Dec 2021

Amazon mining threatens dozens of uncontacted Indigenous groups, study shows

Shanna Hanbury 1 Dec 2021
3. San Ignacio de Velasco was one of the municipalities that lost the most forest cover in Bolivia in 2020. Agribusiness and cattle ranching, were one of the main drivers of this deforestation. Photo by Eduardo Franco and Ernst Drawert for Mongabay.

Forests for sale: How land traffickers profit by slicing up Bolivia’s protected areas

Eduardo Franco Berton 25 Nov 2021

Indigenous groups call for gov’t intervention as land grabbers invade Bolivian protected area

Iván Paredes Tamayo 12 Nov 2021

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

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Nov 2021
Souza Dias Alvez, of the Mura Indigenous people, looks over the destruction left behind by invaders who cleared a swath of rainforest in the São Pedro Indigenous Reserve in Autazes, Amazonas. The region is seeing a surge in deforestation that is now encroaching on Indigenous lands, as buffalo ranchers turn more land into pasture. Mongabay by Ana Ionova.

Indigenous lands under siege as buffalo frenzy grips the Amazon

Ana Ionova 5 Nov 2021

COP-26: Amazonia’s Indigenous peoples are vital to fighting global warming (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 2 Nov 2021

BR-319 highway hearings: An attack on Brazil’s interests and Amazonia’s future (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 26 Oct 2021

Human influence on tropics predates Anthropocene, holds clues to current crisis

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 13 Oct 2021
Jaguar

Fire and forest loss ignite concern for Brazilian Amazon’s jaguars

Carolyn Cowan 12 Oct 2021
Yellowfin tuna image by Martin Gil Gallo. via the Creative Commons, CC-By-NC.

Are tuna doing as well as latest extinction risk assessments suggest? It’s complicated

Mike Gaworecki 15 Sep 2021
Image by Valdir Hobus via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation sweeps national park in Brazil as land speculators advance

Ana Ionova 10 Sep 2021

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Sep 2021

Drug trafficking threatens Indigenous Shipibo communities in Peru

Enrique Vera 3 Sep 2021

Drug trafficking and illegal logging threaten Indigenous communities in Peru

Gloria Alvitres 26 Aug 2021

Indigenous Amazonian communities bear the burden of Ecuador’s balsa boom

Diego Cazar Baquero 17 Aug 2021

Tesco’s meat problem (commentary)

Robin Willoughby 3 Aug 2021
Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / mongabay

New index measuring rainforest vulnerability to sound alarm on tipping points

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 28 Jul 2021

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

Fabiano Maisonnave 22 Jul 2021

As soy frenzy grips Brazil, deforestation closes in on Indigenous lands

Ana Ionova 21 Jul 2021

Armed with data and smartphones, Amazon communities boost fight against deforestation

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 12 Jul 2021

Amazon dams: No clean water, fish dying, then the pandemic came

Tiffany Higgins 23 Jun 2021

Bigger is badder when it comes to climate impact of farms in the Amazon

Claire Asher 17 Jun 2021

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