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Amazon frog highlights appropriation of Indigenous knowledge for commercial gain

Jennifer Ann Thomas 31 May 2022

Satellite data brings new insights on what drives Amazon forest loss

Maxwell Radwin 30 May 2022

As large areas of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest regenerate, the gains don’t last

Elizabeth Oliveira 30 May 2022
Residents of the Mura Indigenous village of Murutinga, in Brazil’s Amazonas state, take over a boat belonging to employees of the electricity company, who have come to cut off the community's energy supplies. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

Push for potash mine in Brazil’s Amazon looms over Indigenous people

Ana Ionova 27 May 2022

Riders of the lost waves: Surfing, and saving, Brazil’s pororocas

Aldem Bourscheit 27 May 2022

Study warns of risk from feline viruses to wild cats on the palm oil frontier

Sean Mowbray 26 May 2022

Seed banks catalog Brazil’s food past to safeguard its future

Sibélia Zanon 26 May 2022

For wildlife on Brazil’s highways, roadkill is just the tip of the iceberg

Dimas Marques 25 May 2022

Efforts bloom to save southern Brazil’s last butiá palm groves

Aldem Bourscheit 24 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

Illegal mining footprint swells nearly 500% inside Brazil Indigenous territories

Lais Modelli 18 May 2022

In Brazil’s Amazon, Quilombolas fight the erasure of their African heritage

Miguel Pinheiro 17 May 2022
Irma and Heloisa collect Murici fruits ( Byrsonima crassifolia (L.) Rich) at the Ripá tribe on Pimentel Barbosa indigenous territory in Mato Grosso, Brazil

Indigenous village harvests seeds to slow deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado

Daniel Grossman, Dado Galdieri 16 May 2022

New investigation links chicken supply chains in Europe to Indigenous rights abuses in Brazil

Laurel Sutherland 13 May 2022
The Terra do Meio Ecological Station, near the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protected Area, is home to margays (Leopardus wiedii), small wild cats native to South and Central America. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Pasture replaces large tract of intact primary forest in Brazilian protected area

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2022

In Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous lands stop deforestation and boost recovery

Lais Modelli 13 May 2022
Ranchers who received customized training made more sustainable changes to their properties, including pasture restoration, that led to both economic and environmental benefits, researchers say.

Training on pasture recovery is a win-win for Brazil’s cattle ranchers and forests

Sarah Brown 12 May 2022
Forest fire in a deforested area in an undesignated public forest in Altamira, Pará on Jul 31, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga/Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation surges in April

Mongabay.com 6 May 2022

A new index measures the human impacts on Amazon waters

Ronaldo Ribeiro, Letícia Klein, Kevin Damasio, Laura Kurtzberg, Ambiental Media 5 May 2022
Deforestation frontier in Jaru, Brazil

Putin’s financial interest in Brazil’s Amazon highways (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 4 May 2022

Surge in deforestation as Brazil pushes to pave a forgotten Amazon road

Naira Hofmeister 4 May 2022

Tropical mammals under rising chemical pollution pressure, study warns

Sean Mowbray 2 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

Illegal miners bring sexual violence and disease to Indigenous reserve in Brazil

Lais Modelli 28 Apr 2022

Teaching climate issues through gameplay gains a following in Brazil

Marina Martinez 27 Apr 2022
According to the Forest Code, rural properties located in the Cerrado biome of Mato Grosso state must maintain 35% of their native vegetation.

Brazil bill seeks to redraw Amazon borders in favor of agribusiness

Jenny Gonzales 25 Apr 2022

Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul mobilizes to reduce wildlife massacre on its roads

Dimas Marques 25 Apr 2022

Saving old-growth forests: Q&A with Amazon Watch’s Leila Salazar-López

Maxwell Radwin 22 Apr 2022

Canadian miners get high-level lobbying boost for Brazilian Amazon projects

Caio de Freitas Paes, Agência Pública 20 Apr 2022
A mural depicting Indigenous faces stretches across a wall in the historic center of Manaus, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

History on the walls: Graffiti brings Manaus’s Indigenous roots to light

Ana Ionova 19 Apr 2022

In Brazil’s northeast, family farmers are guardians of creole seeds

Sucena Shkrada Resk 19 Apr 2022

Amid extinctions, forest corridors aim to save rare birds in Brazil’s northeast

Sibélia Zanon 18 Apr 2022

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