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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
Piñatex fibers in the drying stage. The pineapple leaf fiber has great tensile strength and flexibility. Image courtesy of Riikka Juva/Ananas Anam.

Sustainable fashion: Biomaterial revolution replacing fur and skins

Jenny Gonzales 8 Apr 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

To cooperatively stop deforestation for commodities, navigating ‘legal’ vs ‘zero’ is key (commentary)

Michael Wolosin 9 Mar 2022
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‘Huge blow’ for tiger conservation as two of the big cats killed in Thailand

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jan 2022

Cattle boom in Brazil’s Acre spells doom for Amazon rainforest, activists warn

Sarah Brown 7 Jan 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

‘They will die’: Fears for the last Piripkura as Amazon invasion ramps up

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Dec 2021
Image courtesy of Rixster II

Potty-trained cows? Teaching cattle where to urinate could help reduce greenhouse gases

Emily Moskal 30 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

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

11 Mongabay investigations in two years. Here’s what we found

Mike DiGirolamo 17 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
Logging concession in Indonesia. Photo credit: Yudhi Mahendra / Mighty Earth

Fomenting a “Perfect Storm” to push companies to change: Q&A with Glenn Hurowitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2021

Tesco’s meat problem (commentary)

Robin Willoughby 3 Aug 2021

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

Claire Asher 30 Jul 2021
Image courtesy of Fernanda Meirelles, Idesam/ Observatório BR-319.

Illegal deforestation intensifies along Brazilian highway as agribusiness hopes swell

Ana Ionova 23 Jul 2021

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

Ana Ionova 21 Jul 2021

Turning Kenya’s problematic invasive plants into useful bioenergy

Anthony Langat 21 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

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

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

Peter Speetjens 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

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