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Environmental defenders in Nicaragua denounce government crackdown as elections loom

Maxwell Radwin 13 Oct 2021
Indonesia-Palm Oil

FOREST Act bill would hold global suppliers accountable for illegal deforestation

Maxwell Radwin 8 Oct 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
Cattle ranch next to a recently deforested area in Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia, Brazil. Photo courtesy of Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance).

New permits for Brazilian beef exports to US could increase deforestation risk: Report

Maxwell Radwin 27 Sep 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
Cow in Colombia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Though nefarious, Russian hack of JBS should prompt environmental debate over meat “oligopoly” (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 25 Aug 2021

A bad fire year predicted in Brazil’s Acre state. What’s to be done?

Liz Kimbrough 17 Aug 2021

As blazes on embargoed Amazon land surge, links to meat industry emerge

Andrew Wasley, Elisângela Mendonça 30 Jul 2021

Planned Brazil-Peru highway threatens one of Earth’s most biodiverse places

Fabiano Maisonnave 22 Jul 2021

As soy frenzy grips Brazil, deforestation closes in on Indigenous lands

Ana Ionova 21 Jul 2021

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

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jul 2021

Paid in Blood: Standing up to private interests often turns deadly in Brazil

Yessenia Funes 14 Jun 2021

On the Mongolian steppe, conservation science meets traditional knowledge

Jacopo Pasotti 2 Jun 2021

Illegal clearing for agriculture is driving tropical deforestation: Report

Justin Catanoso 20 May 2021
Banner image of the Marauiá mountain range in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, in the state of Amazonas. Image by Sebastião Salgado

‘Amazônia must live on’: Photographer Sebastião Salgado returns home with his new book

Peter Speetjens 20 May 2021

Amazon palm oil has not lived up to its promise of sustainability (commentary)

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 May 2021

Settlers invading, deforesting Colombian national parks ‘at an unstoppable speed’

Antonio José Paz Cardona 19 May 2021

Karipuna people sue Brazil government for alleged complicity in land grabs

Shanna Hanbury 6 May 2021

Deforestation-free beef stymied by Brazil’s unequal supply chain

Naira Hofmeister 5 May 2021

‘Zero illegal deforestation’ – One more Bolsonaro distortion (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 3 May 2021

Drugs and agriculture cause deforestation to skyrocket at Honduran UNESCO site

Karen Paredes, Leonardo Guevara, Lesly Frazier 30 Apr 2021
The Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

The political economy of the Pan-Amazon (book excerpt)

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Apr 2021

New beef scorecard measures brands against their deforestation promises

Aurora Solá 21 Apr 2021

Cattle-driven clearing continues in Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu protected area

Liz Kimbrough 16 Apr 2021

Human impact on South America expanded by 60% since 1985

Mongabay.com 16 Apr 2021

Recognizing the true guardians of the forest: Q&A with David Kaimowitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Apr 2021

Landmark decision: Brazil Supreme Court sides with Indigenous land rights

Ana Ionova 13 Apr 2021

New palm oil frontier sparks scramble for land in the Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 12 Apr 2021
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Beef giant JBS vows to go deforestation-free — 14 years from now

Aurora Solá 6 Apr 2021

Deforestation rises in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park as cattle invade

Antonio José Paz Cardona 2 Apr 2021

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