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Ricardo Miranda, one of the protest leaders and member of the M10 movement representing Ngäbe communities affected by the dam. Photo by Camilo Mejia Giraldo

PHOTOS: Panama revives stalled dam over strong indigenous opposition

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 25 Aug 2016
A mural of murdered activists Berta Cáceres in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Photo by disoniador via Pixabay.

In Latin America, environmentalists are an endangered species

Lindsay Fendt 11 Aug 2016

Video: Baby frogs escape from snake in seconds

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Jun 2016
Blue color form of Dendrobates auratus dart frog. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

10 conservation “fads”: how have they worked in Latin America?

Aldo Orellana López, Alan Forsberg 17 Jun 2016
La Danta pyramid in the Mayan city of Mirador, as seen from a distance. Photo by Ronyrocael/Wikimedia Commons.

Controversial park plans in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 17 Jun 2016

Indigenous groups pressured to give up lands for doubtful Nicaragua Canal

Lindsay Fendt 9 Jun 2016
Marta Álvarez inspects xate palm fronds harvested in the Uaxactún community forest concession. Photo by Sandra Cuffe.

Communities lead the way in rainforest conservation in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 9 Jun 2016

Successes and many challenges in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 2 Jun 2016

An improbable future for Nicaragua’s inter-oceanic canal

Adam Stein, Hector Castaneda, Karen Masters 25 May 2016

The assassinations of Mother Nature’s guardians (commentary)

Fred Bercovitch 24 May 2016

Five technologies help thwart illegal logging by tracing wood’s origin

Emily Kaldjian, Loretta Cheung, Ruth Nogueron 23 May 2016

Indigenous territories occupy 40 percent of protected land and marine areas in Central America

Mike Gaworecki 20 May 2016

Nicaragua Canal would threaten endangered species says study

Lindsay Fendt 9 May 2016

Big animals have big impacts on tropical forest carbon storage

Shreya Dasgupta 5 May 2016

New group of Caribbean plants named after James Bond

Shreya Dasgupta 5 May 2016

Last best place on earth: Who will save the Caribbean’s great coral reef?

Justin Catanoso 14 Apr 2016

Maroon 5 musicians voice support for community forestry in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 6 Apr 2016

Portable scanners that identify timber species could detect illegal logging

Julia John 4 Apr 2016

Four get maximum sentence for murder of Costa Rican sea turtle conservationist

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Apr 2016

Guatemala’s REDD+ program draws a range of opinions and results

Carlos Chávez 18 Mar 2016

Killing of Guatemalan activist in the Maya Biosphere Reserve raises alarm

Sandra Cuffe 18 Mar 2016

Demands grow for a thorough investigation of Berta Cáceres’ assassination in Honduras

Ruxandra Guidi 14 Mar 2016

A plane survey of Central America’s last remaining forests

Ruxandra Guidi 10 Mar 2016

Honduran environmental and indigenous rights activist, Berta Cáceres, is gunned down

Ruxandra Guidi 3 Mar 2016

Getting SMART about Wildlife Crime

Julia John 2 Mar 2016

Guatemala’s La Pasión River is still poisoned, nine months after an ecological disaster

Carlos Chávez 16 Feb 2016

Primate-Watching: In the Year of the Monkey, let’s build a Conservation Movement

Russell A. Mittermeier 3 Feb 2016

Another challenge to the Nicaragua Canal: indigenous community refuses to turn over their territories

Ruxandra Guidi 12 Jan 2016

Marine protected areas are helping the Mesoamerican Reef recover

Mike Gaworecki 6 Jan 2016

Guatemala’s Christmas season isn’t nice to the native pinabete tree

Carlos Chávez 22 Dec 2015

Belize bans offshore oil drilling along barrier reef system

Sandra Cuffe 18 Dec 2015

Controversial Nicaragua canal on hold

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2015

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