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Two Chaco Chachalacas in Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Photo by Dario Sanches via Wikimedia Commons.

Jurisdictional certification approach aims to strengthen protections against deforestation

Tara MacIsaac 4 Apr 2017

Three new frog species found in disappearing Atlantic Forest

Benji Jones 30 Mar 2017

Amazon land speculators poised to gain control of vast public lands

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Mar 2017

Yellow fever is killing howler monkeys in Brazil

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Mar 2017

New cave catfish threatened by deforestation, mining, pollution

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Mar 2017

Crime and not enough punishment: Amazon thieves keep stolen public land

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 Mar 2017

Current regulations unable to control trade in products from slave labor, expert says

Ana Aranha, João Diaz, from Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Suppliers of Lowe’s in the US and Walmart in Brazil linked to slave labor in the Amazon

André Campos - Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Slave labor in the Amazon: Risking lives to cut down the rainforest

Tania Caliari and Ana Aranha - Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Investigation reveals slave labor conditions in Brazil’s timber industry

Thais Lazzeri - Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Big data timber exchange partners with FSC in Brazil

Mongabay.com 13 Mar 2017
2. The Belo Monte megadam, Pará state, northwestern Brazil. The dam cut off the Xingu River and reduced its flow by 80 per cent, December 2016. Photo by Maximo Anderson for Mongabay

Displaced by Brazil’s giant Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, ‘river people’ reoccupy reservoir

Maximo Anderson 13 Mar 2017

New bill aims to cut protection of 1M hectares of Brazilian rainforest

Benji Jones 10 Mar 2017
Cattle at one of the 70,000 suppliers used by JBS, one of Brazil's largest beef producers. Photo courtesy of JBS

Cattle industry lags behind in addressing impact on deforestation

Tara MacIsaac 9 Mar 2017

Amazon Soy Moratorium: defeating deforestation or greenwash diversion?

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Mar 2017
Logs burn at sunset in Bolivia. Photo by Jim Wickens/Ecostorm

Brazilian savanna and Bolivian rainforest at risk from soy production, says report

Maximo Anderson 8 Mar 2017
Eucalyptus tree. Photo by Bidgee/Wikimedia Commons

Pressure over water in Brazil puts pulp industry in the spotlight

Ignacio Amigo 2 Mar 2017

The changing face of Amazon development: from land grab to eco-lodge

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Feb 2017

Judge halts excavation plans for largest-ever Brazilian goldmine

Zoe Sullivan 22 Feb 2017

What happens when the soy and palm oil boom ends?

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Feb 2017

Protected areas found to be ‘significant’ sources of carbon emissions

Benji Jones 17 Feb 2017

Getting there: The rush to turn the Amazon into a soy transport corridor

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 Feb 2017
Kalapalo tribal men, an indigenous group that lives in the Xingu Resex in 2008. Photo by Eduardo Giacomazzi/Wikimedia Commons

Brazil’s ‘river people’ join forces with indigenous communities, offer alternative to deforestation

Maximo Anderson 10 Feb 2017

Soy invasion poses imminent threat to Amazon, say agricultural experts

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Feb 2017

Scientists launch expedition to find missing monkeys

Christina Selby 2 Feb 2017

Birds wanted: Recovering forests need avian assist 

Mongabay.com 2 Feb 2017

Brazil alters indigenous land demarcation process, sparking conflict

Jenny Gonzales 2 Feb 2017

Introducing Mongabay news alerts

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2017

Battle for the Amazon: As Sinop grew, the Amazon rainforest faded away

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Feb 2017

First-ever underwater photos of newly discovered Amazon Reef have surfaced

Mike Gaworecki 30 Jan 2017

Primates face impending extinction – what’s next?

Russell A. Mittermeier and Anthony B. Rylands 24 Jan 2017

Is Brazil green washing hydropower? The case of the Teles Pires dam

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 18 Jan 2017

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