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Fires near the community of Quitunuquiña in the municipality of Roboré in the department of Santa Cruz. Photo courtesy of Claudia Belaunde.

Bolivian protected areas hit hard by forest fires

Iván Paredes Tamayo 10 Nov 2022
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Deforestation is pushing Amazon to ‘point of no return’: WWF report

Maxwell Radwin 9 Nov 2022

Mercury rising: Why Bolivia remains South America’s hub for the toxic trade

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2022

In the western Amazon, oil blocks eat away at Indigenous lands, protected areas

Yvette Sierra Praeli 24 Oct 2022

The protected area that isn’t: Bolivia’s Ñembi Guasu beset by fires, farms, roads

Rocío Lloret 17 Oct 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the east changes the equation

Liz Kimbrough 20 Sep 2022

More droughts are coming, and the Amazon can’t keep up: Study

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2022

In Bolivian Amazon, oil blocks encroach deep into protected areas

Iván Paredes Tamayo 16 Aug 2022

Bolivia’s former ‘death road’ is now a haven for wildlife

Liz Kimbrough 12 Aug 2022

Mennonite colony builds bridge, clears forest in Bolivian protected areas

Iván Paredes Tamayo 27 Jun 2022

‘Lost’ Amazonian cities hint at how to build urban landscapes without harming nature

Kimberley Brown 15 Jun 2022
Lithium evaporation ponds in Salar de Atacama, Antofagasta, Chile. Source: NASA. Image processing by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Why Russia should not win the bid for Bolivia’s lithium (commentary)

Joseph Bouchard 7 Jun 2022
Portrait of Sarayaku Warmikuna, member of Mujeres Amazónicas (Amazonian Women). The women of the community were the first to be part of the collective known as Amazonian Women. Image courtesy of Esteffany Bravo.

A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries

Astrid Arellano, Yvette Sierra Praeli 31 May 2022

Satellite data brings new insights on what drives Amazon forest loss

Maxwell Radwin 30 May 2022

Stained by oil: A history of spills and impunity in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo, Vanessa Romo 23 May 2022
A spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), also known as the Andean bear.

Researchers compile largest-ever photo database of Amazon wildlife

Liz Kimbrough 20 May 2022

The price of oil spills in Peru and Colombia? Millions of dollars in fines

Cristina Fernández Aguilar 20 May 2022
Guireja, an Ayoreo woman, sits outside her house that she was forced to abandon as a result of logging, Paraguay. Image by Survival.

Indigenous group defends uncontacted relatives from cattle onslaught in the Gran Chaco

Liz Kimbrough 3 May 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

2021 tropical forest loss figures put zero-deforestation goal by 2030 out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2022
Coca plantation on a hillside near Caranavi, western Bolivia.

All coked up: The global environmental impacts of cocaine

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2022

Chinese investment in Latin America plagues people and nature: Report

Maxwell Radwin 24 Mar 2022

2021 Amazon deforestation map shows devastating impact of ranching, agriculture

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2022

Luxury wood market driving extinction of rare ipê trees, report warns

Maxwell Radwin 14 Mar 2022

In Bolivia, Indigenous groups fear the worst from dam project on Beni River

Iván Paredes Tamayo 11 Jan 2022

‘Only the rains will stop it’: Bolivia forest fires hit protected areas

Yvette Sierra Praeli 7 Jan 2022
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

The year in rainforests 2021

Rhett A. Butler 29 Dec 2021

Wildlife death toll from 2020 Pantanal fires tops 17 million, study finds

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 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

Indigenous groups call for gov’t intervention as land grabbers invade Bolivian protected area

Iván Paredes Tamayo 12 Nov 2021

Indigenous Bolivians take the defense of their land into their own hands

Yvette Sierra Praeli 26 Oct 2021

Fires leave trail of dead wildlife, scorched land in Bolivia’s protected areas

Yvette Sierra Praeli 11 Oct 2021

The Pantanal is burning again. Will it be another devastating year?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Sep 2021

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