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New law banning mining in Colombia’s moorlands could draw its first lawsuit

Ruxandra Guidi 15 Mar 2016

Award-winning Colombian film, “The Embrace of the Serpent”, is not sitting well with a local indigenous community

Ruxandra Guidi 1 Mar 2016

Can privatization save parks?

Josh Davis 26 Feb 2016

Colombia bans mining in its moorlands

Ruxandra Guidi 11 Feb 2016

Colombia’s palm oil boom marred by bloody past and violent present

Greg Norman 5 Jan 2016

The year in rainforests: 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2015

Creating a commons: sustainable fishing and hunting in the Colombian Amazon

David Barton Bray 23 Dec 2015

Norway extends forest conservation initiative

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Dec 2015

Deforestation in Colombia up nearly 20 percent last year, but down in the Colombian Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 26 Nov 2015

Farmed and legally exported Colombian poison frogs take on the illegal pet trade

John-Rob Pool 18 Nov 2015

Three Amazon nations, three approaches to reducing deforestation

Julian Smith 22 Oct 2015

New study argues ‘land sparing’ is better for the birds

Jeremy Hance 12 Oct 2015
Map of historic deforestation in the Amazon rainforest since 1970

Deforestation declines in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Oct 2015

New reserves in Colombia protect endangered species in a ‘Pleistocene refuge’

Mike Gaworecki 1 Oct 2015

2015 Equator Prize winners span 19 countries

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2015
Red howler monkey, Colombia. Photo by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Climate change causing big shifts in tropical forests

Apoorva Joshi 3 Sep 2015

A tiny new catfish for the Amazon Basin

Neelam Pereira 3 Sep 2015

Indigenous miners, leaders under threat in Colombia following killing

Sandra Cuffe 10 Aug 2015

Colombian reserve gets big expansion

Apoorva Joshi 10 Jul 2015

Norway, Colombia target partnership to save rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2015

New fund helps groups buy land quickly to protect threatened wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 9 Jun 2015

New bird uncovered in South American conflict region, researchers urge protection

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 28 May 2015

What’s the current deforestation rate in the Amazon rainforest?

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 May 2015

Borneo’s rainforest may get high-tech 3D scan to boost conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 May 2015

Platform provides near-real time analysis of deforestation in non-Brazilian Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Apr 2015

Bushmeat’s dual role: threatened species face off against nutrition and culture

Victor Montoro 5 Mar 2015

Colombia proposes protected corridor across South America

Mike Gaworecki 3 Mar 2015

Rainforest loss increased in the 2000s, concludes new analysis

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Feb 2015

Campaign asks consumers to directly support forest conservation

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Feb 2015

The Amazon’s oil boom: concessions cover a Chile-sized bloc of rainforest

Jeremy Hance 4 Feb 2015

When is a forest a forest? How definitions affect monitoring

Julian Moll-rocek 29 Jan 2015

Financial pledges for REDD+ slow to be disbursed, finds report

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2015

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