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Temer pays back ruralists: opens Brazil, Amazon to mining, say critics

Zoe Sullivan 24 Aug 2017

Indigenous groups win key land rights victory in Brazil’s Supreme Court

Sue Branford 17 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Indians on the march in last ditch effort to stop land theft

Sue Branford 14 Aug 2017

Brazilian firm wants to build new dams in Amazon’s Aripuanã basin

Sue Branford 10 Aug 2017

HydroCalculator: new, free, online tool helps citizens assess dams

Claire Salisbury 7 Aug 2017

Sixth mass extinction ‘tsunami’ coming, but preventable

John Cannon 4 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Aug 2017

First ‘intrusions’ into unbroken forests drive pulses of biodiversity loss

John Cannon 28 Jul 2017

Study links most Amazon deforestation to 128 slaughterhouses

Eduardo Pegurier 27 Jul 2017

Orangutans find home in degraded forests

John Cannon 24 Jul 2017

Charcoal and cattle ranching tearing apart the Gran Chaco

John Cannon 19 Jul 2017

Colombia expands indigenous reserves near key deforestation hotspot

Mike Gaworecki 14 Jul 2017

Soy King Blairo Maggi wields power over Amazon’s fate, say critics

Jenny Gonzales 13 Jul 2017

Temer signs law that could see millions of acres lost in the Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 13 Jul 2017

Amazon infrastructure EIAs under-assess biodiversity; scientists offer solutions

Claire Salisbury 6 Jul 2017

Study: Brazilian mega-dams caused far more flooding than EIA predicted

Claire Salisbury 5 Jul 2017

Norway vexed as Brazil sends mixed message on Amazon forest protection

Jenny Gonzales 27 Jun 2017

Unexamined synergies: dam building and mining go together in the Amazon

Zoe Sullivan 22 Jun 2017

Brazil evicts 80 rural peasant families, awards land thieves parcel

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 21 Jun 2017

International action a must to stop irreversible harm of Amazon dams, say experts

Claire Salisbury 19 Jun 2017

If Brazil okays Terra Legal changes, land grabbers win, Amazon loses, say environmentalists

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 16 Jun 2017

Brazil on verge of legitimizing Amazon land theft on a grand scale, warn NGOs

Mauricio Torres and Isabel Harari, Sue Branford 15 Jun 2017

Financing sustainable agriculture possible, if terms fit farmers’ needs

John Cannon 2 Jun 2017

On the road to ‘smart development’

John Cannon 25 May 2017

New soy-driven forest destruction exposed in South America

John Cannon 22 May 2017
Banner photo courtesy of EIA

Peru lost more than 1 million hectares of Amazon forest over a period of 15 years

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 18 May 2017
Arevs in O'Tabok, Virachey National Park, Cambodia Feb 2017. Photo courtesy of EIA.

New report details enormous corruption, illegal logging along Vietnamese border with Cambodia

Michael Tatarski 8 May 2017
Carnegie Airborne Observatory (CAO) forest scan in the Peruvian Amazon. The CAO uses advanced optical and chemical sensors in combination with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technologies to map forest carbon, chemistry, and other features. Image courtesy of the Carnegie Airborne Observatory/Greg Asner.

Indigenous lands ‘critical’ to forest protection in Peru, biodiversity maps show

John Cannon 5 May 2017

Over the bridge: The battle for the future of the Kinabatangan

John Cannon 3 May 2017
Proboscis monkeys grooming.

An interactive map connects landowners and forest change in one of the world’s most biodiverse places

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 Apr 2017

Cross River superhighway changes course in Nigeria

John Cannon 28 Apr 2017

No safe forest left: 250 captive orphan chimps stuck in sanctuaries

Eugene N. Nforngwa 20 Apr 2017

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