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Indigenous community saves Colombia’s poison dart frog from coca and logging

Maxwell Radwin 30 Nov 2021
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With La Niña conditions back, is it good news for tropical forests?

Carolyn Cowan 22 Nov 2021

New protections announced for Galápagos Islands and beyond at COP26

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Nov 2021

‘To change policies, insert yourself in them’: Q&A with biologist Liliana Dávalos

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 29 Oct 2021

Brazil leads Amazon in forest loss this year, Indigenous and protected areas hold out

Liz Kimbrough 6 Oct 2021

In Colombia, legal mining proves a win-win for environment, traditional communities

Dimitri Selibas 25 Sep 2021

Fires in the Amazon have already impacted 90% of plant and animal species

Suzana Camargo 21 Sep 2021

Drug trafficking and illegal logging threaten Indigenous communities in Peru

Gloria Alvitres 26 Aug 2021

The women on the front lines of safeguarding the Amazon

Mike DiGirolamo 26 Aug 2021

On the Colombian plains, a leader stands up for her people against land theft

Ginna Santisteban, Óscar Parra, Pilar Puentes 11 Aug 2021
Hammerheads. Photo credit: Yves Lefèvre

Protecting Colombia’s shark paradise: Q&A with Sandra Bessudo

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Aug 2021

Mennonites said to deforest ancestral Indigenous land in Colombia

La Liga Contra el Silencio, Mongabay Latam, Rutas del Conflicto 4 Aug 2021

More than 250 major fires detected in the Amazon this year, despite Brazil’s ban

Liz Kimbrough 3 Aug 2021

Ending Amazon deforestation a top priority on Colombian minister’s D.C. visit

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 2 Aug 2021

‘Animal rights will be part of our DNA’: Q&A with Bogotá councilor Andrea Padilla

John Edward Myers 16 Jul 2021

Colombia brings landmark rulings of importance closer to Indigenous communities

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 9 Jul 2021

In the Colombian Andes, a forest corridor staves off species extinction

Veronika Perkova 2 Jul 2021

Mining exposes Indigenous women in Latin America to high mercury levels

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 1 Jul 2021

Beef industry causes deforestation in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park

Tatiana Pardo Ibarra 29 Jun 2021

In Colombia, end of war meant start of runaway deforestation, study finds

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 25 Jun 2021
Small-scale deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

In less than a generation, legal mining in Colombia deforested over 120,000 hectares

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 8 Jun 2021

Hold the scuba: These lizards can breathe underwater

Mongabay.com 28 May 2021
The golden terribilis dart frog, the world's most poisonous frog, is featured in one of the episodes. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Actor Juan Pablo Espinosa on the golden dart frog

Mongabay.com 24 May 2021

In Colombia, a successful jaguar conservation program has a whiff of coffee

Antonio José Paz Cardona 20 May 2021

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

Antonio José Paz Cardona 19 May 2021

A Colombian national park reveals its natural secrets through camera traps

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 4 May 2021
The Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

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

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Apr 2021

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

Antonio José Paz Cardona 2 Apr 2021

Empowering Indigenous peoples crucial to climate, biodiversity crises: Study

Dimitri Selibas 2 Apr 2021

Exposing organized crime in the Amazon: Q&A with Robert Muggah of the Igarapé Institute

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2021

New map shows where the 80% of species we don’t know about may be hiding

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Mar 2021

BlackRock must commit to Indigenous rights — not just climate change (commentary)

David Hill 19 Mar 2021

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