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A 2023 expedition along the Uatumã River documented biodiversity loss linked to the Balbina dam. In 2024, a survey of the undammed Jatapu River revealed a region teeming with life. Image courtesy of the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA).

Endemic fish wiped out in Brazilian Amazon hydroelectric dam area, study finds

Sarah Brown 25 Feb 2025
Banner image: A teenager from an isolated Indigenous group voluntarily made contact. Image courtesy of Survival International.

Deforestation and airstrip close to isolated teen’s Indigenous land in Brazil Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 24 Feb 2025

Political nepotism and elected clans in the Brazilian Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Feb 2025
On February 12, activists and riverside residents posted on Guajará Bay in Belém, the host city for this year’s UN climate conference COP30, with banners saying ‘President Lula, don’t trade the Amazon for oil’. Image © Eliseu Pereira / 350.org

Lula pushes oil drilling at mouth of Amazon despite climate risks

Sarah Brown 21 Feb 2025

As the rainforest gets drier, Amazon Indigenous groups thirst for clean water

Kevin Damasio 18 Feb 2025

The culture of corruption across the Amazon Basin 

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Feb 2025

Mining dredges return to Amazon River’s main tributary, months after crackdown

Fernanda Wenzel 10 Feb 2025

The Pan Amazon as a hotspot of cultural diversity

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Feb 2025

Mongabay series on illegal timber and cattle wins honorable mention in Brazil journalism prize

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2025

Handcrafted woodwork helps save an Amazonian reserve, one tree at a time

Sibélia Zanon 5 Feb 2025

Why is this endangered dolphin being killed to make “love perfumes”? | Wild Targets

Romi Castagnino 5 Feb 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Ecuador’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 5 Feb 2025

Amazon states lead rebellion on environmental enforcement

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Feb 2025

Yanomami sees success two years into Amazon miner evictions, but fears remain

Fernanda Wenzel 29 Jan 2025
Greenpeace Brazil conducted an aerial survey in southern Amazonas and northern Rondônia to monitor deforestation and fires in July 2024. Photo © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace.

Drop in Amazon deforestation confirmed, but degradation soars 497% in 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jan 2025
The San Gerónimo community in the nearby province of Oxapampa, department of Pasco. Image by Guillermo Carlos Gómez via Wikimedia Commons.

Early results suggest communities stop logging during basic income pilot project

Sonam Lama Hyolmo, Latoya Abulu 27 Jan 2025
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching -- the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon -- in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

EUDR divides Brazil’s environmental and agribusiness authorities

Karla Mendes 27 Jan 2025
Rodrigo Agostinho, head of IBAMA

‘We’re getting back on track’: Interview with IBAMA head Rodrigo Agostinho

Karla Mendes 24 Jan 2025

In the Pan Amazon, inequality and informality fuel informal economies

Timothy J. Killeen 23 Jan 2025
An aerial image shows rainforest fragmented by cattle ranching.

Study shows degradation changes a forest’s tree profile and its carbon storage

Peter Speetjens 22 Jan 2025

Brazil’s ‘innovative’ reforestation agenda discussed in Davos (commentary)

Guilherme Leal, Paulo Hartung, Roberto Waack 21 Jan 2025
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Probe details the playbook of one of Amazon’s top land grabbers

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Jan 2025

Plans for bauxite mine in Suriname reignite Indigenous land rights debate

Maxwell Radwin 16 Jan 2025

Vested interests and social tribes in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 16 Jan 2025

Mongabay documentary spotlights Indigenous alliance to protect Amazon headwaters

Shanna Hanbury 16 Jan 2025

After a searing Amazon fire season, experts warn of more in 2025

Fernanda Wenzel 8 Jan 2025

Conservation and the rise of corporations in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Jan 2025

Amazon communities reap the smallest share of bioeconomy profits

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Jan 2025
Emergent rainforest tree in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler for Mongabay.

The Amazon in 2025: Challenges and hopes as the rainforest takes center stage

Alexandre de Santi 30 Dec 2024
Deforestation for soy plantations and cattle ranches endanger the habitats of Amazon primates and prevent their movement to new locations. Rivers further limit the ability of small primates to move. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Sea change for soy champion Brazil as it wrestles with EUDR compliance

Karla Mendes 30 Dec 2024

Rainforest Outlook 2025: Storylines to watch as the year unfolds

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2024

The particularities of the migratory movement in Venezuela, the Guianas and Suriname

Timothy J. Killeen 27 Dec 2024

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