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

Sarah Sax 2 Jun 2020

Brazil’s native bees are vital for agriculture, but are being killed by it

Sibélia Zanon 1 Jun 2020

Offensive against the Amazon: An incontrollable pandemic (commentary)

Marcos Colón, Luís de Camões Lima Boaventura, Erik Jennings 1 Jun 2020

In the Amazon, a farmer practices the future of sustainable cattle ranching

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 28 May 2020

Green alert: How indigenous people are experiencing climate change in the Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 27 May 2020

Loggers attack Brazilian environmental official in Amazon; Bolsonaro silent

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 27 May 2020

Brazil minister advises using COVID-19 to distract from Amazon deregulation

Jenny Gonzales 26 May 2020

Brazil judge blocks appointment of missionary to indigenous agency

Sam Cowie 26 May 2020

Vietnam wildlife trade ban appears to flounder amid coronavirus success

Michael Tatarski 25 May 2020
Flooded forest in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Brazil’s ‘land-grabbers law’ threatens Amazonia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 25 May 2020

For Amazon indigenous facing COVID-19, distance to ICU beds poses dire threat

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2020

Coronavirus puts Brazil’s quilombos at risk; will assistance come?

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 21 May 2020

As their land claim stalls, Brazil’s Munduruku face pressure from soybean farms

Caio de Freitas Paes 21 May 2020

Kafka in the Amazon: Volunteer forest fire fighter charged with arson still in limbo

Peter Speetjens 20 May 2020

Projeto Harpia: Saving the Amazon’s largest raptor for more than 20 years

Suzana Camargo/Conexão Planeta 20 May 2020

For Indonesia’s captive wildlife, lockdown measures may prove deadly

Basten Gokkon 19 May 2020

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund drops major Brazil miner, utility from its portfolio

Ashoka Mukpo 19 May 2020

A Philippine island locked down, but its mine didn’t — and infections mounted

Jun N. Aguirre 18 May 2020
Uncontacted indigenous group in the Amazon photographed by authorities with the Brazilian Indian affairs agency FUNAI. Photo by Gleison Miranda-FUNAI.

Indigenous COVID-19 cases top 500, danger mapped in Brazil agricultural hub

Sam Cowie 18 May 2020

Amazon fires may be worse in 2020 as deforestation and land grabbing spikes

Caio de Freitas Paes 18 May 2020

As COVID-19 pandemic deepens, global wildlife treaty faces an identity crisis

Malavika Vyawahare 15 May 2020

As habitat degradation threatens Amazon species, one region offers hope

Taran Volckhausen 14 May 2020

Amazon road projects could lead to Belize-size loss of forest, study shows

Maurício Angelo 14 May 2020

Large indigenous territories are necessary for culture and biodiversity in Brazil, study says

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2020

What can we expect from tropical fire season 2020?

Mike Gaworecki 13 May 2020

Seed by seed, a women’s collective helps reforest Brazil’s Xingu River Basin

JoAnna Haugen 12 May 2020
Uncontacted indigenous group in the Amazon photographed by authorities with the Brazilian Indian affairs agency FUNAI. Photo by Gleison Miranda-FUNAI.

Amazon indigenous leader: Our survival is at stake. You can help (commentary)

Beto Marubo 12 May 2020

Bolsonaro revives a plan to carve a road through one of Brazil’s last untouched areas

Fernanda Wenzel/oeco 11 May 2020
Deforestation for soy in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Amazon deforestation increases for 13th straight month in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 May 2020

Brazil opens 38,000 square miles of indigenous lands to outsiders

Mauricio Torres, Sue Branford 8 May 2020
Yanomami community in northern Brazil saying ‘Go away, mining companies’. Image by Victor Moriyama/ISA.

The mining map: Who’s eyeing the gold on Brazil’s indigenous lands?

Agência Pública, Anna Beatriz Anjos, Bruno Fonseca, Ciro Barros, José Cícero da Silva, Rafael Oliveira, Thiago Domenici 7 May 2020

Brazil sacks officials who curbed deforestation on Amazon indigenous lands

Jenny Gonzales 5 May 2020

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