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Fires in the Pantanal: ‘We are facing a scenario now that is catastrophic’

Ana Ionova 6 Aug 2020

Understaffed and under threat: Paraguay’s park rangers pay the ultimate price

Aldo Benítez 5 Aug 2020

No choice: Why communities in Paraguay are cutting down forests to survive

Aldo Benítez 31 Jul 2020

Marijuana farms expand in Paraguay reserve despite gov’t crackdowns

Aldo Benítez 27 Jul 2020
Cattle at one of the 70,000 suppliers used by JBS, one of Brazil's largest beef producers. Photo courtesy of JBS

Investigation links meat giant JBS to Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2020

Protected areas in Paraguay hit hard by illegal marijuana farming

Aldo Benítez 22 Jul 2020

World’s biggest meatpacker JBS bought illegally grazed Amazon cattle: Report

Sam Cowie 20 Jul 2020

Where there’s cattle ranching and soybean farming, there’s fire, study finds

Marcelo Coppola 20 Jul 2020

Only a few ‘rotten apples’ causing most illegal Brazil deforestation: Study

Sarah Sax 17 Jul 2020

‘On the edge’: Endangered forest cleared for marijuana in Paraguay

Aldo Benítez 9 Jul 2020

Brazilian meatpacker expands with World Bank funding but fails to reduce impacts in the Amazon

Naira Hofmeister 9 Jul 2020

Illegal farms on indigenous lands get whitewashed under Bolsonaro administration

Bruno Fonseca, Rafael Oliveira 23 Jun 2020

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

John Cannon 18 Jun 2020

Concerned for the future, indigenous Nicaraguans lament lost habitats

Sandra Cuffe 16 Jun 2020

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

Caio de Freitas Paes 10 Jun 2020
Cows grazing in Nicaragua's southern indigenous autonomous region in October,

Nicaraguan beef, grazed on deforested and stolen land, feeds global demand

Mario Rautner, Sandra Cuffe 10 Jun 2020

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

Fábio Nascimento (photos), Gustavo Faleiros 3 Jun 2020

New data show world lost a Switzerland-size area of primary rainforest in 2019

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Jun 2020

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

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro 28 May 2020

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

Jenny Gonzales 26 May 2020

Brazilian taxpayers subsidizing Amazon-clearing cattle ranches, study shows

Naira Hofmeister 26 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

The unknown Cerrado and its colossal biological relevance (commentary)

Michael Becker 22 May 2020

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

Caio de Freitas Paes 18 May 2020

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

Mauricio Torres, Sue Branford 8 May 2020

As bioethanol demand rises, biodiversity will fall in Cerrado, study says

Naira Hofmeister 4 May 2020

Some ranchers and conservationists agree: Grazing and logging can save birds

Jennifer Oldham 28 Apr 2020
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

UK military beef supplier buys from sanctioned Brazilian farmers, investigation shows

Mongabay.com 28 Apr 2020

Cattle put Paraguay’s Chaco biome at high risk, but report offers hope

Sarah Sax 8 Apr 2020

Conservationists urge reforms in Bolivia after environmental, political crises

Yvette Sierra Praeli 27 Mar 2020

Conservationists cautiously optimistic after Bolivian government changes hands

Yvette Sierra Praeli 9 Mar 2020

On anniversary of nun’s murder Amazon land rights activists at high risk

Sam Cowie 27 Feb 2020

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