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Mongabay’s coverage of palm oil in 2021

Ashoka Mukpo 27 Dec 2021
Photo credit: Bill Laurance

Tom Lovejoy, prominent conservation biologist, dies at 80

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Dec 2021
Oil barrel Amazon

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

Victoria Schneider 23 Dec 2021

As the Amazon burns, its Indigenous inhabitants choke on the haze

Valéria Santana and Juliana Ennes 23 Dec 2021

Reclaiming tradition: Amazonian women ditch mining for biocosmetics

Carolina Pinheiro 23 Dec 2021

Slashed forest protections ignites land grabbing frenzy in Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 22 Dec 2021

Global ayahuasca trend drives deforestation in Brazil’s Acre state

Matthew Meyer 22 Dec 2021

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

Mike Gaworecki 22 Dec 2021
Flowering rainforest tree in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Could the Blockchain help save the Amazon? (commentary)

Sophia Wood 22 Dec 2021

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021

Illegal roads pierce Indigenous reserve, national parks in Colombian Amazon

Santiago Luque Pérez 20 Dec 2021

To end illegal deforestation, Brazil may legalize it entirely, experts warn

Meghie Rodrigues 20 Dec 2021
Cattle in Brazil

European supermarkets say Brazilian beef is off the menu

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Dec 2021

Oil highway bears down on uncontacted Indigenous groups in Ecuador’s Yasuní

Kimberley Brown 15 Dec 2021

Barrage of droughts weakens Amazon’s capacity to bounce back, study finds

Elizabeth Oliveira 15 Dec 2021

Across Latin America, Mennonites seek out isolation at the expense of forests

Victoria Schneider 15 Dec 2021

Exports of threatened species’ timber boomed under Bolsonaro, probe finds

Ciro Barros from Agência Pública 14 Dec 2021

French deforestation database pressures Brazilian soy traders to clean up supply chain

Maxwell Radwin 14 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

Betty Rubio, the tech-savvy Kichwa leader defending threatened territory

Cristina Fernández Aguilar 10 Dec 2021

‘They will die’: Fears for the last Piripkura as Amazon invasion ramps up

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Dec 2021

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

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 3 Dec 2021
Brazil nut collecting in the Zoró Indigenous Land, MT

For Indigenous Zoró, the Brazil nut is a weapon against deforestation

Isabel Harari, Jaqueline Deister 3 Dec 2021

Amazonian birds are shrinking in response to climate change, study shows

Sibélia Zanon 2 Dec 2021

Amazon mining threatens dozens of uncontacted Indigenous groups, study shows

Shanna Hanbury 1 Dec 2021

Meet Magali, the conservation warrior rescuing Peru’s rainforest animals: Video

Liz Kimbrough 26 Nov 2021

You can’t see them to count them, but Amazonian manatees seem to be recovering

Sibélia Zanon 26 Nov 2021

In Brazil, an agribusiness haven’s green pivot leaves many skeptical

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Nov 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
Bolivia

With La Niña conditions back, is it good news for tropical forests?

Carolyn Cowan 22 Nov 2021
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation unexpectedly surges 22% to highest level since 2006

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Nov 2021

Court convenes historic hearing in Indigenous territory on land consent issue

Kimberley Brown 17 Nov 2021

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