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Dams or indigenous land: the battle over the Munduruku frontier

Ana Aranha 20 Feb 2015

Exclusive: Funai confirms that land threatened by dam projects belongs to indigenous tribe

Ana Aranha 19 Feb 2015

Brazilian indigenous populations grow quickly after first contact devastation

Caitlin E. Williamson 18 Feb 2015

How do parks affect the poor? Jury’s still out, some experts say

Barbara Fraser 13 Feb 2015

‘Sustainable’ cacao company allegedly defies government’s call to halt plantation development

John Cannon 13 Feb 2015

Innovating Brazil nuts: a business with roots in the rainforest

Barbara Fraser 11 Feb 2015

Video: innovative tourism helps protect forests in Amazonian Peru

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2015

The Amazon’s oil boom: concessions cover a Chile-sized bloc of rainforest

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2015

Mercury fish: gold mining puts downstream communities at risk in Peru

Jeremy Hance 2 Feb 2015

Community tourism fills niche around Tambopata National Reserve

Barbara Fraser 29 Jan 2015

Video: camera trap catches jaguar hunting peccaries

Jeremy Hance 26 Jan 2015

Environmental wisdom: keeping indigenous stories alive

Barbara Fraser 21 Jan 2015

Company chops down rainforest to produce ‘sustainable’ chocolate

John Cannon 20 Jan 2015

Amazon gold rush destroying huge swaths of rainforest

John Cannon 14 Jan 2015

Ecuador sends aid money back to Germany over planned rainforest visit

Jeremy Hance 23 Dec 2014

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2014

Rhett A. Butler 23 Dec 2014

Edited Reality: What I Learned from Filming Eaten Alive

Paul Rosolie 22 Dec 2014

Indigenous communities ‘among the very few best protectors’ of Peruvian Amazon

John Cannon 12 Dec 2014

Indigenous leader murdered before he could attend Climate Summit

Jeremy Hance 8 Dec 2014

How an indigenous community in Ecuador stood up to big oil – and won

Julian Moll-rocek 5 Dec 2014

Giant stone face unveiled in the Amazon rainforest (video)

Jeremy Hance 4 Dec 2014

Threatened indigenous forests store more than half the Amazon’s carbon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Dec 2014

A tale of 2 Perus: Climate Summit host, 57 murdered environmentalists

Jeremy Hance 18 Nov 2014

New tapir? Scientists dispute biological discovery of the century

Jeremy Hance 13 Nov 2014

New laws may turn Brazil’s forests into mines

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Nov 2014

Brazilian tribes demarcate territory in bid to block dams

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Nov 2014

Daring activists use high-tech to track illegal logging trucks in the Brazilian Amazon

Jeremy Hance 15 Oct 2014

‘River wolves’ recover in Peruvian park, but still remain threatened inside and out (photos)

Jeremy Hance 14 Oct 2014

Forest fragmentation’s carbon bomb: 736 million tonnes C02 annually

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2014

An impossible balancing act? Forests benefit from isolation, but at cost to local communities

Anna Ikarashi 7 Oct 2014

Turning point for Peru’s forests? Norway and Germany put muscle and money behind ambitious agreement

Jeremy Hance 24 Sep 2014

‘The green Amazon is red with indigenous blood’: authorities pull bodies from river that may have belonged to slain leaders

Jeremy Hance 17 Sep 2014

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