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How a fun women’s gathering led to small wildcat conservation in Peru’s Andes

James Hall 22 Aug 2024

Venezuela: Water crisis looms as deforestation spreads in Yacambú National Park

Maxwell Radwin 25 Jun 2024
A man with a child.

Andes community-led conservation curbs more páramo loss than state-protected area: Study

Aimee Gabay 14 Feb 2024
Petrel chick in the Galapagos. Photo credit: James Muchmore

How a group in Ecuador protects 10% of the world’s bird species

Rhett A. Butler 11 Dec 2023
Llamas moving through the harsh post-glacial landscape below the Uruashraju glacier. Photo credit: Anaïs Zimmer

Llama herding helps community in Peru recover from a melting glacier

Sierra Bouchér 27 Nov 2023
An Andean motmot.

‘What we need to protect and why’: 20-year Amazon research hints at fate of tropics

Justin Catanoso 24 Jul 2023

A powerful U.S. political family is behind a copper mine in the Colombian rainforest

Andrés Bermúdez Liévano 14 Jun 2023

New research finds slow forest recovery in the Andes — and ways to improve

Mark Hillsdon 16 May 2023
After burning off the mercury, a relatively pure piece of gold remains. Image by Thomas Graham for Mongabay.

In a Bolivian protected area torn up for gold, focus is on limiting damage

Thomas Graham 2 May 2023
Soraida Chindoy, 38, Indigenous leader from the Inga community of the Condagua reservation. She has been part of the movement to stop the mining project from the beginning. Image by Antonio Cascio for Mongabay.

Plan to mine ‘clean energy’ metals in Colombian Amazon splits communities

Natalia Torres Garzón 22 Mar 2023

‘They paid for it with misery’: Q&A with Chile dam critic Jose Marihuan Ancanao

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022

Dam construction ignites Indigenous youth movement in southern Chile

Maxwell Radwin 16 Nov 2022
Andean bear captured in a camera trap a the Qeros-Wachiperi Conservation Concession, part of study to determine the bear’s habitat preferences. The bears altitudinal range goes from 200 to 4000 meters above sea level. Photo: Conservación Amazónica ACCA.

How bears “make” a forest (commentary)

Enrique Ortiz 30 Sep 2022

Andean eagles have managed to adapt to fragmenting habitats — for now

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jun 2022
A common squirrel monkey in Colombian Amazon.

Drivers of Colombia’s peacetime deforestation weave a complex web

Gianluca Cerullo 20 May 2022

China-funded dam could disrupt key Argentine glaciers and biodiversity

Maxwell Radwin 12 May 2022
A landslide near Manizales in the Central Andes. In 2011, a landslide broke a pipe supplying water from the cloud forests and paramos into city, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without access to water for 10 days.

In landslide-prone Colombia, forests can serve as an inexpensive shield

Gianluca Cerullo 13 Apr 2022
The Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Moore Foundation pledges extra $300m to boost conservation of Amazon

Laurel Sutherland 10 Mar 2022

On agrobiodiversity, the Andes can teach the world much about crop conservation (commentary)

Barbara Wells 12 Jan 2022

In Peruvian Andes, ancient crops hold promise for a climate-blighted future

Aurora Solá 5 Oct 2021

In Peru, ancient food technologies revived in pursuit of future security

Illa Liendo Tagle 3 Sep 2021

Enhancing biodiversity through the belly: Agroecology comes alive in Chile

Constanza Monterrubio Solís 30 Aug 2021

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

Fabiano Maisonnave 22 Jul 2021

Environmental defenders in Ecuador aren’t safe, new report shows

Kimberley Brown 9 Jul 2021

In the Colombian Andes, a forest corridor staves off species extinction

Veronika Perkova 2 Jul 2021

In Colombia, end of war meant start of runaway deforestation, study finds

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 25 Jun 2021

Combining negotiation, legal backing and orchids to create ecotourism reserve

Sarah Foster 22 Oct 2019

Camera trap study finds a threatened high-elevation mammal community in Peru

Mike Gaworecki 23 Apr 2019

Flashing lights ward off livestock-hunting pumas in northern Chile

John Cannon 7 Jan 2019

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

Mongabay.com 30 May 2018

Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Claire Asher 28 Feb 2018

Why losing big animals causes big problems in tropical forests

John Cannon 14 Jun 2017

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