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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 Ayers 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

More than 250 major fires detected in the Amazon this year, despite Brazil’s ban

Liz Kimbrough 3 Aug 2021

Soy and cattle team up to drive deforestation in South America: Study

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jul 2021

Mining exposes Indigenous women in Latin America to high mercury levels

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 1 Jul 2021

The secret bears of Bolivia’s lost dry forests

Claire Wordley 9 Jun 2021
Tucabaca Wildlife Reserve in Roboré, Bolivia. Photo credit: Adro Molina

Rallying the public to save Bolivia’s forests: Q&A with Gina Méndez

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 May 2021
The Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The political economy of the Pan-Amazon (book excerpt)

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Apr 2021

Empowering Indigenous peoples crucial to climate, biodiversity crises: Study

Dimitri Selibas 2 Apr 2021

Exposing organized crime in the Amazon: Q&A with Robert Muggah of the Igarapé Institute

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2021

Chinese triads target Bolivia’s jaguars in search of ‘American tiger’ parts

Vanessa Romo 2 Mar 2021

Industrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia

Gustavo Jiménez Gonzáles 30 Dec 2020

Sighting of super rare Chacoan fairy armadillo in Bolivia ‘a dream come true’

Milan Sime Martinic 21 Dec 2020
Pit Viper in striking mode. The 'mountain fer-de-lance' is a new species of pit viper that was discovered on the Zongo RAP survey. It has since been described as Bothrops monsignifer. Bothrops is a genus of pit vipers endemic to Central and South America. The generic name, Bothrops, is derived from the Greek words βόθρος, bothros, meaning "pit", and ώπς, ops, meaning "eye" or "face", together an allusion to the heat-sensitive loreal pit organs.

[Photos] Tiny frog, venomous viper among 20 new species described in Bolivia

Liz Kimbrough 14 Dec 2020

What is a white-lipped peccary? Candid Animal Cam is in South America

Romi Castagnino 1 Dec 2020

A million hectares ablaze as forest fires sweep through Bolivia

Yvette Sierra Praeli 20 Nov 2020
Tapir at the Ambue Ari Sanctuary of Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi. Courtesy of CIWY

Wildlife emergency in Bolivia as fires threaten animal sanctuaries

Milan Sime Martinic 16 Oct 2020
Satellite image of a major fire in the savannas of Beni on September 12, 2020. Data from Planet. Image courtesy of MAAP.

In Bolivia, more than 25% of major fires this year burned in protected areas

Liz Kimbrough 12 Oct 2020

Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon

John Cannon 9 Oct 2020

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