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Franco Ivan Macedo Tafur, a member of the Amazon mangrove research team

First-of-its-kind freshwater mangroves discovered in Brazil’s Amazon Delta

Liz Kimbrough 20 Jul 2022

In Brazil, an Indigenous group turns a day of grief into a celebration of life

Ana Mendes 19 Jul 2022

Red-hot demand for ipê wood coincides with deforestation hubs in Brazil

Aldem Bourscheit 18 Jul 2022
Fishermen fishing on the Madeira rapids.

Overexploitation threatens Amazon fisheries with collapse, study warns

Peter Speetjens, Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2022
A group of Pataxó

With plantation takeover, Brazil’s Indigenous Pataxó move to reclaim their land

Sarah Sax 14 Jul 2022

Natural regeneration and women-led initiatives help drive Atlantic Forest Pact

Sibélia Zanon 11 Jul 2022
Global Forest Watch forest cover change alerts near Porto Velho in the State of Rondônia, Brazil in 2022.

Amazon deforestation is off to the fastest start to a year since 2008

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2022

Under Bolsonaro policy, invaders seize control of 250,000 hectares of Indigenous lands

Caio de Freitas Paes 7 Jul 2022

Net-zero commitments must include more anti-deforestation policies, UN tells private sector

Maxwell Radwin 5 Jul 2022
Rede Wayuri co-founder Marivelton Barroso and ISA socioenvironmental policy specialist Juliana Radler receive the 2022 Rule of Law Award.

Indigenous reporters awarded for fight against fake news deep in the Amazon

Juliana Ennes 5 Jul 2022

In Brazil’s semiarid region, agrivoltaics show promise for food, energy security

Marina Martinez 5 Jul 2022
Hyacinth macaws in artificial nest

Habitat loss, climate change send hyacinth macaw reeling back into endangered status

Jenny Gonzales 4 Jul 2022

Protecting Brazil’s Amazon could be a bargain — if the government were willing to pay

Lais Modelli 4 Jul 2022

World Bank approves $200 million IFC loan for industrial agriculture in Brazil’s Cerrado

Maxwell Radwin 1 Jul 2022
“Guardians of the Forest” Paulo Paulino Guajajara (left) and Laércio Guajajara (right)

Indigenous advocates sense a legal landmark as a guardian’s killing heads to trial

Karla Mendes 30 Jun 2022
Erasmo and Natalha Theofilo

Amazon rainforest activist under threat in Brazil plans to flee his home

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jun 2022
Illegal gold mining inside the Munduruku and Sai Cinza Indigenous Lands

Swiss pledge to stop illegal gold imports from Brazil Indigenous reserves

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 27 Jun 2022
A framed photo of Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

In Brazil, an Indigenous land defender’s unsolved killing is the deadly norm

Sarah Brown 27 Jun 2022
A Brachycephalus ephippium on leaves

Pumpkin toadlets can’t jump: The frog that gave up balance for size

Liz Kimbrough 24 Jun 2022

For Brazil communities along a mining railway, impacts outweigh any benefits

Maurício Angelo 23 Jun 2022
cerrado grasslands

EU’s anti-deforestation bill leaves out critical ecosystems, study shows

Sarah Sax 21 Jun 2022

In São Paulo, Indigenous Guarani unite over their reclaimed farming tradition

Patricia Moll 21 Jun 2022
Vigil for Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira

The war on journalists and environmental defenders in the Amazon continues (commentary)

Karla Mendes 16 Jun 2022
Dom Phillips, interviewing the Ashaninka Indigenous people

Deaths of Phillips and Pereira shine light on a region of the Amazon beset by violence

Sue Branford 16 Jun 2022
Protest in front of the Brazilian National Congress, in 2019.

Brazil shows no progress in response to U.N. calls on Indigenous rights

Carla Camargo Fanha 15 Jun 2022
Christina Haverkamp (center), founder of the German NGO Hilfe Yanomami, with Indigenous children. The activist has been going to Brazil since the 1990s and says wildcat miners are disrupting the life of the Yanomami people. Image courtesy of Hilfe Yanomami.

At 30, Brazil’s Yanomami reserve is beset by mining, malaria and mercury

Peter Speetjens 9 Jun 2022

For traditional peoples in Brazil’s Maranhão state, progress brings violence

Ed Wilson Araújo 9 Jun 2022

New study offers answers for why tropical birds are more colorful

Suzana Camargo 8 Jun 2022
A rancher herds cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Foreign capital powers Brazil’s meatpackers and helps deforest the Amazon

Moyra Ashford, Sue Branford 7 Jun 2022

How Brazil is working to save the rare lion tamarins of the Atlantic Forest

Daniele Bragança, Duda Menegassi 1 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
Inspectors from Brazil’s federal environmental protection agency, IBAMA, carried out a series of inspections in 2017, exposing weaknesses in Brazil's forest management systems that allowed illegal timber to be sold both domestically and abroad.

Government inaction sees 98% of deforestation alerts go unpunished in Brazil

Sarah Brown 31 May 2022

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