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Climate emergency may channel millions in resources toward corn-based ethanol in the Amazon

Fábio Bispo, O Joio e o Trigo 3 Jul 2023
James Njuguna, a shepherd who lives near the Manguo swamp.

Drying wetlands and drought threaten water supplies in Kenya’s Kiambu County

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 5 Apr 2023
Triunfo do Xingu, a sustainable development reserve in the Brazilian state of Pará, has in recent years become the epicenter of the forest destruction gripping the Amazon Rainforest. Cattle ranching is responsible for much of the destruction, but wildcat mining and land grabbing are fast advancing too. Across the reserve, toppled trees, open-pit mines and charred jungle are a common sight. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

Deforestation ‘out of control’ in reserve in Brazil’s cattle capital

Ana Ionova 11 Jan 2023

To cut emissions from cattle ranching, beef up the soil, study says

Shanna Hanbury 20 Dec 2022
Aerial photo of thick rainforest and the plowed fields of crops.

Growing soy on cattle pasture can eliminate Amazon deforestation in Brazil

Sarah Brown 4 Nov 2022
Cattle ranching is the primary cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon today, with much of the meat exported. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Beef is still coming from protected areas in the Amazon, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 18 Oct 2022
Kibiwot displaying his archery skills at his makeshift home in the Embobut, which has been burned down many times by KFS as part of forceful evictions.

Kenyan hunter-gatherers forced to farm now face increased evictions from their forest

Kang-Chun Cheng 22 Jun 2022
Maasai walking in rain in Kenya. Image courtesy of David via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Maasai protesters shot, beaten as Tanzania moves forward with wildlife game reserve

Latoya Abulu, Laurel Sutherland 14 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
A young girl carrying one of her goats as they travel home at the end of the day.

Conflict over resources in Kenya hits deadly highs with firearms in play

Kang-Chun Cheng 19 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
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
Guireja, an Ayoreo woman, sits outside her house that she was forced to abandon as a result of logging, Paraguay. Image by Survival.

Indigenous group defends uncontacted relatives from cattle onslaught in the Gran Chaco

Liz Kimbrough 3 May 2022
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

‘Giving up’: Amazon is losing its resilience under human pressure, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2022

From teak farms to agroforestry: Panama tests reforestation strategies

Colin Sytsma 10 Mar 2022

Pay or punish? Study looks at how to engage with farmers deforesting the Cerrado

Sarah Sax 25 Feb 2022

Getting African grasslands right, for people and wildlife alike: Q&A with Susanne Vetter

Kang-Chun Cheng 31 Dec 2021
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021
An official from Operation Green Brazil surveys a deforested and burned landscape. Image by Ibama via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

‘Rampant forest destruction’ wracks reserve as cattle ranching advances in Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 29 Dec 2021

Slashed forest protections ignites land grabbing frenzy in Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 22 Dec 2021

Young forests can help heal tropical aquatic ecosystems: Study

Aimee Gabay 19 Nov 2021

New study helps cattle ranchers monitor ecological impact on U.S. rangelands

Maxwell Radwin 12 Nov 2021
Souza Dias Alvez, of the Mura Indigenous people, looks over the destruction left behind by invaders who cleared a swath of rainforest in the São Pedro Indigenous Reserve in Autazes, Amazonas. The region is seeing a surge in deforestation that is now encroaching on Indigenous lands, as buffalo ranchers turn more land into pasture. Mongabay by Ana Ionova.

Indigenous lands under siege as buffalo frenzy grips the Amazon

Ana Ionova 5 Nov 2021
Soy-forest boundary. Photo credit: Mighty Earth

Timmermans vs. Bolsonaro: Will the EU get deforestation off our dinner plates? (commentary)

Nico Muzi 7 Oct 2021

Brazil leads Amazon in forest loss this year, Indigenous and protected areas hold out

Liz Kimbrough 6 Oct 2021

Oil palms alone can be damaging; with other crops, the benefits abound

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Sep 2021
Image by Valdir Hobus via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation sweeps national park in Brazil as land speculators advance

Ana Ionova 10 Sep 2021

Old and new solutions pave way to net-zero emissions farming, studies show

Claire Asher 30 Jul 2021

Soy and cattle team up to drive deforestation in South America: Study

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jul 2021

Beef industry causes deforestation in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park

Tatiana Pardo Ibarra 29 Jun 2021

Bigger is badder when it comes to climate impact of farms in the Amazon

Claire Asher 17 Jun 2021

On the Mongolian steppe, conservation science meets traditional knowledge

Jacopo Pasotti 2 Jun 2021

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