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Riverine communities join forces to preserve threatened Amazon turtles

Sibélia Zanon (text) and Julia Lima (video and photos) 11 Mar 2024

Project retraces Darwin’s voyage, educating young conservation leaders

Beatriz Santomauro 11 Mar 2024
A fisher casts a net in Laguna, Brazil.

Fishers’ memories on par with scientific data on historic catches: Study

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Mar 2024

Migratory Amazonian catfish placed on the international protection list

Suzana Camargo 8 Mar 2024
A juvenile northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina) held in a cage outside a gas station in Cambodia. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Impunity for Cambodia’s exotic pet owners as trade outpaces legislation

Gerald Flynn, Nehru Pry 7 Mar 2024
People during a severe heat wave that struck Brazil in late 2023.

Study on Brazilian heat wave deaths shows gender & racial disparities

Michael Esquer 6 Mar 2024

Land irrigation as an obstacle to agricultural intensification in Mato Grosso

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Mar 2024

Brazil’s Indigenous women launch a national audiovisual network

Julia Lima, Matheus Lopes Quirino 6 Mar 2024

What is most convenient in land distribution?

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Mar 2024

A feathered cape bridges past and present for Brazil’s Indigenous Tupinambá

Matheus Lopes Quirino 4 Mar 2024

Night light, habitat loss & pesticides threaten Brazil’s bioluminescent insects

Bernardo Araujo 1 Mar 2024

Major meatpackers are unlawfully deforesting Brazil’s Cerrado, report says

Maxwell Radwin 29 Feb 2024
Quilombola leaders Edmilson Furquim (Dênis) and Elza Ursulino on the balcony of their home in the Bombas territory.

New precedent as Afro-Brazilian quilombo community wins historic land claim

Aimee Gabay 29 Feb 2024

Study points to which Amazon regions could reach tipping point & dry up

Fernanda Wenzel 29 Feb 2024
Dholes (Cuon alpinus) hunting a spotted deer in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra, India.

Dholes latest wild canids likely making comeback in Nepal, study shows

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Feb 2024

Smallest wildcat of the Atlantic Forest faces enormous threats

Aldo Benítez 27 Feb 2024
A boat carrying potable water from Macapá city, Amapá’s capital, by the government is stranded because of the siltation of the Amazon River in front of Livramento community.

Locals at the mouth of the Amazon River get a salty taste of climate change

Rodrigo Pedroso, Rudja Santos 26 Feb 2024
Artistic rendering of a forest shaped like a brain. AI-generated.

To reverse deforestation and protect biodiversity, build a bioeconomy in the Amazon (commentary)

Robert Muggah 23 Feb 2024

Megafires are spreading in the Amazon — and they are here to stay

Sibélia Zanon, Luís Patriani 22 Feb 2024

Agrochemicals take a big toll on Global South, new Atlas of Pesticides shows

Matheus Lopes Quirino 22 Feb 2024

Land use planning helps advance conservation in Brazil

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Feb 2024
A torrent of mining waste killed nearly 300 people when a tailings dam at Vale’s mine in Brumadinho collapsed in 2019.

Scientists now know how the Brumadinho dam disaster happened, and the lessons to learn

Sarah Sax 21 Feb 2024

Climate change, extreme weather & conflict exacerbate global food crisis

Abdulkareem Mojeed, Priscilla Misiekaba-Kia, Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 19 Feb 2024
Generated image showing a road through a deforested landscape.

Brazil’s BR-319 highway: The danger reaches a critical moment (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 17 Feb 2024

In Brazil’s soy belt, community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon

Ana Ionova 15 Feb 2024

Kapinawá: the 50 year fight for sacred territory in the Catimbau Valley

Xavier Bartaburu (words and photos) & Rafael Martins (video and photos) 13 Feb 2024

Rewilding in Argentina helps giant anteaters return to south Brazil

Sarah Brown 12 Feb 2024
The Pataxó territory overlaps with Monte Pascoal National Park in the Brazilian state of Bahia. Image courtesy of André Olmos.

Attack on Pataxó Hãhãhãi Indigenous leaders must be investigated (commentary)

Felipe Milanez, Maria Rosário de Carvalho, Cecilia McCallum, Felipe Cruz Tuxá, Jurema Machado, Ernenek Mejía 9 Feb 2024
African elephants

Cornell receives $35m gift for research at nexus of wildlife and health

Carolyn Cowan 9 Feb 2024

Brazil’s environmental David fights Congress’s agribusiness Goliath: Interview with Nilto Tatto

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Feb 2024
Dorado catfish. Image courtesy of Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá via Macaulay Library.

Amazon catfish must be protected by the Convention on Migratory Species COP-14 (commentary)

Mariana Varese 8 Feb 2024

In the Brazilian outback, the half-century Kapinawá struggle for sacred ground

Xavier Bartaburu 5 Feb 2024

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