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Smartphone app helps indigenous communities fight deforestation

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2018

Leprosy prevalent among Amazon’s armadillos, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 29 Jun 2018

Latam Eco Review: Chocolate as a conservation strategy

Mongabay.com 29 Jun 2018

Plant response to rising CO2 levels may alter rainfall patterns across tropics

Claire Asher 28 Jun 2018

A most unlikely hope: How the companies that destroyed the world’s forests can save them (commentary)

Glenn Hurowitz 28 Jun 2018

Could El Niño and climate change spell the end for tropical forests?

Claire Salisbury 25 Jun 2018
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Winning farmer support to reduce deforestation (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad, João Shimada 24 Jun 2018

Latam Eco Review: Ports imperil Colombian crocodiles

Mongabay.com 23 Jun 2018

New study provides blueprint to translate satellite data into conservation action

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 21 Jun 2018

US/China trade war could boost Brazil soy export, Amazon deforestation

Zoe Sullivan 21 Jun 2018

Peru’s Bahuaja-Sonene National Park at risk over illegal mining

Vanessa Romo 19 Jun 2018

Oil palm plantations in Amazonia inhospitable to tropical forest biodiversity: Study

Mongabay.com 18 Jun 2018

Community evicted by accused murderer seeks justice for Gabriel Filho

Anna Sophie Gross 18 Jun 2018

In Peru, coca puts one of the world’s best coffee crops at risk

Vanessa Romo 18 Jun 2018

Latam Eco Review: Paddington Bear Captured on Camera in Peru

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2018

Hunting, fishing causing dramatic decline in Amazon river dolphins

Claire Asher 13 Jun 2018

Ecuador: Waorani people map their rainforest to save it

Daniela Aguilar 6 Jun 2018

Field Museum honors Peruvian organization for its conservation work with indigenous groups

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2018
● Guided by the indigenous people of Ecuador’s Sucumbíos province, which has been hit by oil exploitation, Waorani people from Pastaza province joined a “Toxic Tour” to learn how contamination has affected other communities in the Amazon.

Ecuador: Tribe sees how oil industry affects forest on ‘Toxic Tour’

Daniela Aguilar 1 Jun 2018
A view up at the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Taller, older trees fare better during Amazon droughts, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Jun 2018

$29 million deforestation fines: game changer for Brazilian soy trade?

Alicia Prager 1 Jun 2018

Raid fails to stop gold mining, death threats on Amazon’s Tropas River

Rosamaria Loures, Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 31 May 2018

Bolivia’s Madidi National Park home to world’s largest array of land life, survey finds

Mongabay.com 30 May 2018

Dutch support soy transport mega-project, posing major risk to Amazon

Karlijn Kuijpers 29 May 2018

Illegal loggers ‘cook the books’ to harvest Amazon’s most valuable tree

Jenny Gonzales 24 May 2018

Brazil has the tools to end Amazon deforestation now: report

Giovanni Ortolani 18 May 2018

Brazilian Amazon oil palm deforestation under control, for now

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 17 May 2018

Study links malaria to deforestation in the Amazon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 May 2018

Attack of the turtles: ruralists assault environmental laws, Amazon

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 15 May 2018

Sylvia Earle on why we must act now to save the oceans

Mike Gaworecki 15 May 2018

Damming the Amazon unfettered after Brazilian purge (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 14 May 2018

A forgotten people: traditional Amazon hamlet fights for its territory

Natalia Guerrero, Mauricio Torres 9 May 2018

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