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Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest at dawn. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Brazil bows to pressure from business, decrees 120-day Amazon fire ban

Jenny Gonzales 8 Jul 2020

Brazilian court orders 20,000 gold miners removed from Yanomami Park

Sue Branford 7 Jul 2020

World’s biggest trade deal in trouble over EU anger at Brazil deforestation

Jenny Gonzales 6 Jul 2020

Discovery of fish never recorded in the Amazon shows richness of Brazil’s Calha Norte

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Jul 2020
Pardalis chameleon (Furcifer pardalis), a resident of the Masoala Peninsula in northeastern Madagascar, where illegal rosewood logging has taken a heavy toll on forests. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

COVID-19 lockdown precipitates deforestation across Asia and South America

James Fair 3 Jul 2020

Brazil could dynamite Amazon dolphin, turtle habitat for industrial waterway

Tiffany Higgins 2 Jul 2020

International task force unites North America to protect salamander diversity

Mongabay.com 1 Jul 2020

Gold priced at $1,700 per ounce brings new gold rush to Brazilian Amazon

Fábio Nascimento (photos), Gustavo Faleiros 1 Jul 2020

Brazil’s indigenous hit especially hard by COVID-19: why so vulnerable?

Sue Branford 25 Jun 2020

World’s top tapir expert prepares for unprecedented Amazon mission

Naira Hofmeister 24 Jun 2020

‘Betting on impunity’: Brazilian Amazon under attack despite logging crackdown

Ana Ionova 23 Jun 2020

Illegal farms on indigenous lands get whitewashed under Bolsonaro administration

Bruno Fonseca, Rafael Oliveira 23 Jun 2020

China and EU appetite for soy drives Brazilian deforestation, climate change: Study

Chris Arsenault 23 Jun 2020

Indonesia resumes release of captive wildlife amid COVID-19

Basten Gokkon 22 Jun 2020
Flowering rainforest tree in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

World Rainforest Day: The world’s great rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2020

COVID-19 and rainforest fires set up potential public health crisis

John Cannon 18 Jun 2020

Will U.S. scientists find a silent salamander killer in time?

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2020

Amazon river dolphin risks extinction if Brazil moratorium not renewed

Peter Yeung 16 Jun 2020
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

14 straight months of rising Amazon deforestation in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Jun 2020

One-two punch of drought, pandemic hits Madagascar’s poor and its wildlife

Malavika Vyawahare 12 Jun 2020

Amazon poor go hungry as Brazil slashes social safety net, cuts forests: Study

Shanna Hanbury 11 Jun 2020

Brazil revises deforestation data: Amazon rainforest loss topped 10,000 sq km in 2019

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jun 2020

Brazilian government taken to court for assault on environment, climate

Sam Cowie 10 Jun 2020

A bid to legitimize invasions of Brazil’s indigenous lands faces a court challenge

Caio de Freitas Paes 10 Jun 2020
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How much rainforest is being destroyed?

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Jun 2020

Report names the banks financing destructive oil projects in the Amazon

Maurício Angelo 9 Jun 2020

Overlap of fire, COVID-19 peaks: A ‘catastrophe’ for Brazil’s Amazon

John Cannon 9 Jun 2020

‘Every time an elder dies, a library is burnt’: Amazon COVID-19 toll grows

Sue Branford 9 Jun 2020

Mystery ailments, asymptomatic individuals: Spotlight on monkeypox in chimps

Shreya Dasgupta 5 Jun 2020

MRN bauxite mine leaves legacy of pollution, poverty in Brazilian Amazon

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 4 Jun 2020

Amazon deforestation gig economy booms despite COVID-19 (Photo Essay)

Fábio Nascimento (photos), Gustavo Faleiros 3 Jun 2020

Communities on Brazil’s ‘River of Unity’ tested by dams, climate change

Sarah Sax 2 Jun 2020

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