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Members of the Quilombolas community make their way across.

Video: Stolen Quilombola cemeteries in the Amazon, and the probe that revealed it all

Karla Mendes 20 Dec 2022
Raimundo Serrão lights candles for their departed family members.

Major Brazil palm oil exporter accused of fraud, land-grabbing over Quilombola cemeteries

Karla Mendes 15 Dec 2022
Reginaldo Oliveira.

In Brazil’s agricultural heartland, rivers run dry as monoculture advances

Ana Ionova 14 Dec 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Deforestation accelerated in Brazil while climate talks were underway in Egypt

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2022
Daniel Berkembrock.

How agroforestry can restore degraded lands and provide income in the Amazon

Avener Prado, Ignacio Amigo, Sam Cowie 9 Dec 2022

Historic EU law against deforestation-linked imports ignores Brazil’s Cerrado

Alec Luhn 8 Dec 2022
Aerial photo of riparian forest and deforestation for soy.

‘Amazing first step’ as EU law cracks down on deforestation-linked imports

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Dec 2022
animals

Population cycles explain white-lipped peccary’s ups and downs, study shows

Mark Hillsdon 6 Dec 2022
Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms drone.

Despite 11% drop in 2022, Amazon deforestation rate has soared under Bolsonaro

Karla Mendes 2 Dec 2022
Aerial photo of riparian forest and deforestation for soy.

To be effective, zero-deforestation pledges need a critical mass, study shows

Sarah Sax 30 Nov 2022

Indigenous cooperative restores forests to form ecological corridor in Bahia

Sibélia Zanon 25 Nov 2022
There are signs of a new frontier of deforestation emerging in Autazes, as invaders descend on this slice of the Amazon. Indigenous leaders say the area is now plagued by illegal logging and land-grabbing. Much of it is related to speculation as a massive potash mining project awaits approval. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay

In Brazilian Amazon, mining harm comes from beyond just the mines, study shows

Maurício Brum 24 Nov 2022

U.N. report calls for the ban of mercury trade and its use in gold mining

Peter Speetjens 24 Nov 2022
Fire in the Amazon.

2022 Amazon fires tightly tied to recent deforestation, new data show

Sandra Cuffe 22 Nov 2022

Report offers a road map to restore the rule of law in the Brazilian Amazon

André Schröder 22 Nov 2022

COP27 long on pledges, short on funds for forests — Congo Basin at risk

Alec Luhn 18 Nov 2022
Deforestation in Kapuas Hulu, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Where is the money? Brazil, Indonesia and Congo join forces in push for rainforest protection cash

Shanna Hanbury 18 Nov 2022

COP27: ‘Brazil is back’ to fight deforestation, Lula says, but hurdles await

Alec Luhn 17 Nov 2022
Marina Silva.

Brazil’s new environmental future under Lula: Q&A with Marina Silva

Jaqueline Sordi 14 Nov 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

In final days before Bolsonaro’s defeat, deforestation boomed in Brazil

Mongabay.com 11 Nov 2022
A photo taken of the Indigenous Tanaru man by a Funai official in 2018.

Delayed Indigenous ‘Man of the Hole’ burial reveals dispute over his land

Sarah Brown 9 Nov 2022
river forest

Deforestation is pushing Amazon to ‘point of no return’: WWF report

Maxwell Radwin 9 Nov 2022
Aerial photo of thick rainforest and the plowed fields of crops.

Growing soy on cattle pasture can eliminate Amazon deforestation in Brazil

Sarah Brown 4 Nov 2022
Jair Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro loses election but finds big support in Amazon Arc of Deforestation

André Schröder 3 Nov 2022

At the mouth of the Amazon, sustainable açaí leaves a sweet taste for communities

Carolina Pinheiro 3 Nov 2022

Loss of Brazilian pines threatens Kaingáng Indigenous culture

Sônia Kaingáng 25 Oct 2022

Illegal agricultural project moves ahead on Brazilian Indigenous lands

João Peres, Marcos Hermanson Pomar, Tatiana Merlino from O Joio e o Trigo 19 Oct 2022
Jaguar skin for sale at the Belen market

A fast-growing pipeline: The Amazon-to-Southeast Asia wildlife trade

Sharon Guynup 18 Oct 2022
Cattle ranching is the primary cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon today, with much of the meat exported. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Beef is still coming from protected areas in the Amazon, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 18 Oct 2022

Activists slam Bolsonaro rule change seen as ending demarcation of Indigenous lands

Fábio Bispo / InfoAmazonia 18 Oct 2022

How an Indigenous family under siege became a symbol of resistance in the Amazon

Elizabeth Oliveira 18 Oct 2022
A guigna.

Wild cats threatened by ‘underrecognized’ risk of spillover disease

Sean Mowbray 13 Oct 2022

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