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

Sibélia Zanon 5 Feb 2025

Brazilian soy farms and cattle pastures close in on a land where the grass is golden

Sibélia Zanon 4 Feb 2025

Amazon states lead rebellion on environmental enforcement

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Feb 2025

On a São Paulo eco-farm, Brazil’s landless movement makes its case for occupation

Peter Speetjens 30 Jan 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
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
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

Vested interests and social tribes in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 16 Jan 2025
Mē Hoprê Catêjê, the Krahô Warriors group, have received several threats and criticisms from farmers and other outsiders operating on the boundaries of their territory.

Krahô women lead Indigenous guard to protect territory in Brazil

Aimee Gabay 14 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 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024

Coffee agroforestry promises a path to EUDR compliance, but challenges remain

Marina Martinez 26 Dec 2024
YEAR IN RAINFORESTS BANNER

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2024

Brazil’s shipping channel plans in Amazonian rivers will worsen climate change, experts warn

Tiffany Higgins 23 Dec 2024

Brazil’s big push for tropical forest funding gets support for 2025 debut

Jenny Gonzales 23 Dec 2024

Brazil’s illegal gold miners carve out new Amazon hotspots in conservation units

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Dec 2024
Amazon Rainforest

Brazil paper and pulp industry invests in blockchain to comply with EUDR

Karla Mendes 16 Dec 2024
Timber illegally extracted from the Amazon by Ricardo Stoppe's group was sold to the USA and Europe.

Illegal timber from Amazon carbon credit projects reached Europe, U.S.

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Dec 2024

Recycling gold can tackle illegal mining in the Amazon, but is no silver bullet

Sarah Brown 13 Dec 2024
A pale spear-nosed bat covered in pollen.

Brazil natural landscape degradation drives toxic metal buildup in bats

Sean Mowbray 11 Dec 2024
Image courtesy of Vicente Sampaio/Imaflora.

Loggers and carbon projects forge odd partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2024

Mongabay series on palm oil wins national journalism prize in Brazil

Mongabay.com 4 Dec 2024

‘Trump is a disease’, says Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa

Daniel Camargos, from Repórter Brasil 2 Dec 2024

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