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Marmosets trafficked as pets now threaten native species in Atlantic forest

Sibélia Zanon 26 Oct 2020

Brazilian frog believed ‘extinct’ for 50+ years, found with eDNA testing

Peter Yeung 6 Oct 2020
Guarani indigenous people protest against real estate speculation in a lot close to Jaraguá indigenous reserve in São Paulo. Image by Tommaso Protti for Mongabay

Housing project puts São Paulo’s remaining Atlantic Forest at risk

Tiffany Higgins, Tommaso Protti 27 Mar 2020

The next great threat to Brazil’s golden lion tamarin: Yellow fever

Peter Yeung 26 Mar 2020

A new mantis species rises from the ashes of Brazil’s National Museum

Suzana Camargo/Conexão Planeta 12 Mar 2020

On the prowl: Jaguar population rises in Iguazú Falls region

Jenny Gonzales 11 Mar 2020

Extinct in the wild, a Brazilian bird makes a tentative return to the jungle

Pedro Biondi 2 Dec 2019

Brazil adds deforestation monitoring for all biomes, so long as money lasts

Jenny Gonzales 14 Nov 2019

Amazon fires trigger protests worldwide

Jill Langlois and Elisângela Mendonça 24 Aug 2019

Germany cuts $39.5 million in environmental funding to Brazil

Karla Mendes 13 Aug 2019

Deforestation drops in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, but risks remain: experts

Karla Mendes 31 Jul 2019

Brazil sees growing wave of anti-indigenous threats, reserve invasions

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Feb 2019

Massive loss of mammal species in Atlantic Forest since the 1500s

John Cannon 28 Sep 2018

Pleistocene climates help scientists pick out targets for conservation in Brazil’s forests

Mongabay.com 8 May 2018

Carbon pricing could save millions of hectares of tropical forest: new study

John Cannon 5 Feb 2018

Betting on agroforestry in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest

Ignacio Amigo 3 Nov 2017

Dogs, dung, and DNA: mapping multi-species corridors to conserve threatened carnivores

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 9 Oct 2017
Ilha Bela, the largest sea island in Brazil, and the Atlantic Forest covers 85 percent of its area. Photo by Santiago Marrodan Ciordia.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest increased almost 60 percent in the last year

Ignacio Amigo 5 Jun 2017
A yellow-fronted woodpecker (Melanerpes flavifrons) in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Photo by Germano Woehl Junior for the Instituto Rã-bugio para Conservação da Biodiversidade.

In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, conservation efforts drown in a sea of eucalyptus

Ignacio Amigo 5 Apr 2017

62M ha of Latin American forests cleared for agriculture since 2001

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 May 2015

Newly discovered Brazilian bird may number fewer than 10 individuals

Shreya Dasgupta 12 Mar 2015

Endangered forests shrink as demand for soy rises

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 10 Mar 2015

Scientists reintroduce agoutis in rainforest in city of 12 million

Jeremy Hance 17 Dec 2014

New endangered bird species discovered in Brazil

Mike Gaworecki 4 Dec 2014

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

Jeremy Hance 9 Oct 2014

Saving the Atlantic Forest would cost less than ‘Titanic’

Jeremy Hance 28 Aug 2014

Only 15 percent of world’s biodiversity hotspots left intact

Jeremy Hance 14 Jul 2014

Will yellow fever drive brown howler monkeys to extinction in Argentina?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 4 Apr 2014

Scientists: well-managed forest restoration benefits both biodiversity and people

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 16 Dec 2013

Odd porcupine hugely imperiled by hunting, deforestation

Jeremy Hance 16 Dec 2013

Scientists discover new cat species roaming Brazil

Jeremy Hance 27 Nov 2013

Forest fragmentation leading to higher extinction rates

Jeremy Hance 13 Aug 2013

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