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Fisherman from the Sawré Muybu Indigenous Territory with his catch from the Tapajós River. Image courtesy of Luis Ushirobira/InfoAmazonia.

Artisanal mines in Brazil a front for gold laundering, investigation shows

Mongabay.com 21 May 2026

More than a million live birds imported to Asia in 15 years, report finds

Mongabay.com 18 May 2026

Scientists race to study the Amazon’s frogs before they disappear

Tiago da Mota e Silva 13 May 2026

Who are the women sustaining luxury fishing in Brazil’s Pantanal?

Mariana Rosetti, Paola Churchill 12 May 2026

New Jaguar Rivers Initiative aims to reconnect South America’s fragmented ecosystems

Maxwell Radwin 12 May 2026

What tree rings reveal about climate change in the Amazon

Luís Patriani 11 May 2026
A golden-headed lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysomelas). Images courtesy of Flávia Zagury.

Endangered golden-headed lion tamarin: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 11 May 2026
Indonesian rainforest. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Forests, fires and fragile gains: Interview with WRI’s Elizabeth Goldman

David Akana 8 May 2026
Filmmaker and workshop facilitator Natália Tupi guiding student Maicon Santos in audiovisual techniques during the workshop in the Tukum village, Tupinambá de Olivença Territory (Bahia, Brazil). Image courtesy of Emma Latham Phillips.

What Indigenous youth filmmaking reveals about environmental communication (commentary)

Jamille Pinheiro Dias 7 May 2026
The Lear’s macaw had been at the center of two recent wildlife trafficking cases.

Brazil police seize devices from bird expert in trafficking probe linked to Vantara zoo

Fernanda Wenzel 7 May 2026

Cerrado’s hidden carbon highlights gaps in Brazil’s conservation policy

Daniel Shailer 7 May 2026
Bullet found on the ground of the Guasu Guavira Indigenous territory in Paraná, southern Brazil.

Killings related to land conflicts double in Brazil, most in the Amazon region

Shanna Hanbury 5 May 2026
Cattle walk along an illegally burnt deforested area near Novo Progresso, in the northern Brazilian state of Para. Image by AP Photo / Andre Penner.

Despite restrictions, forest loss continued on Ituna land, home to isolated people

Aimee Gabay 5 May 2026
A Venezuela snouted treefrog. Image by Taucce et al., 2022, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Study finds microplastics in tadpoles in the Amazon for the first time

David Brown 5 May 2026
Louis Vuitton bag.

EU moves to drop leather from deforestation law after industry lobbying

Elisângela Mendonça 5 May 2026
The Golden dorado (Salminus brasiliensis), a powerful migratory freshwater fish native to the Pantanal and Paraná River Basin, shown here being held by researcher Zeb Hogan. Highly prized by recreational anglers and important to commercial fisheries, the species has declined in parts of its range due to dam construction.

Migratory freshwater fish are in trouble: Will we act in time to save them?

Stefan Lovgren 1 May 2026
High-resolution satellite imagery allows IBAMA to detect deforestation in almost real time.

Brazil bill aims to ban satellite tool used to slow Amazon deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Apr 2026

Brazil prosecutors launch suit against meatpacking giant JBS over beef tied to slavery-like labor

Associated Press 30 Apr 2026
Indigenous protests in Brasilia, Brazil, on April 7. Image courtesy of Anderson Barbosa/Amazon Watch.

Brazilian state greenlights deforestation for contested open-pit gold mine

Shanna Hanbury 29 Apr 2026

Tropical forest loss falls in 2025, but world still off track on deforestation goals

Hans Nicholas Jong 29 Apr 2026
Açaí berry production in Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land, home to the Munduruku people, Pará state, Brazil.

Heat, fires and agribusiness squeeze traditional Amazon açaí harvesters

Carla Ruas 27 Apr 2026

AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas

Constance Malleret 24 Apr 2026
An Atlantic Forest frog, Dendrophryniscus haddadi. Amphibians are susceptible to habitat split due to its negative impact on their life cycles, but the researchers note that such impacts (including microbiome changes) likely apply to numerous other species in wide-ranging ecosystems.

Linking habitats strengthens wildlife microbiomes, helps fight disease: Study

Sean Mowbray 23 Apr 2026
Lula and Macron during a bilateral meeting at Guajará Bay.

Brazil FOIA confirms Lula & Macron talked before key CITES vote on endangered tree

Spoorthy Raman, Fernanda Wenzel, Emmanuelle Picaud 23 Apr 2026
BR-319’s “midsection” has remained unpaved since the highway’s inauguration in 1976. Now, the road’s rebuilding is the subject of one of Brazil’s fiercest environmental debates in recent times. Image courtesy of DNIT.

Brazil taps legal loophole to issue bids for Amazon ‘tipping point’ road

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Apr 2026
Flor-de-Carajás in Pará state, Brazil. All images courtesy of Flávia Zagury.

A red flower found nowhere else loses ground as mining expands in Brazil’s Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 20 Apr 2026
A golden-headed lion tamarin. Image courtesy of Leonardo Oliveira.

Rehab center opens for Brazil’s golden-headed lion tamarins amid urban sprawl threat

Shanna Hanbury 17 Apr 2026
An older chimp, BF, was the last male to go between groups.

Chimp ‘civil war’ follows rare community split in a Ugandan national park

Keith Anthony Fabro 17 Apr 2026
Santi, middle, flanked by Mongabay staff writer for Brazil Fernanda Wenzel, left, and senior editor for Southeast Asia Philip Jacobson. Image by Alexandre de Santi.

From the Atlantic Forest to the Amazon: Alexandre de Santi on camaraderie and uncovering hidden truths in Brazil

Alejandro Prescott-Cornejo 16 Apr 2026
Pista Velha mining site in the Baú Indigenous Territory captured during an overflight on July 19, 2025. Image courtesy of the Xingu+ Network.

Brazil: Satellites expose rampant gold mining expansion on Indigenous Kayapó land

Shanna Hanbury 15 Apr 2026
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon in 2011. Photo by Rhett Butler.

The Amazon’s silent crime crisis (commentary)

Carlos Nobre, Robert Muggah, Ilona Szabo 15 Apr 2026
A yellow-fronted canary from South Africa. The songbird tops the list of wild birds exported from Africa to Asia.

Nearly a million birds shipped from Africa to Asia in 15 years; canaries top the list

Spoorthy Raman 15 Apr 2026

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