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Illegal mining in Colombia’s Amazon threatens Indigenous communities

Indigenous Amazonian communities bear the burden of Ecuador’s balsa boom

Drugs, fire, settlers poised to wipe out one of Paraguay’s most biodiverse forests

In the Honduran Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, an illegal road for cattle and drugs

Drugs and agriculture cause deforestation to skyrocket at Honduran UNESCO site

Indigenous Cacataibo of Peru threatened by land grabbing and drug trade

Colombian and Ecuadorian Indigenous communities live in fear as drug traffickers invade

Cocaine production driving deforestation into Colombian national park

Illegal deforestation rises in South America’s Indigenous territories, parks

A Madagascar forest long protected by its remoteness is now threatened by it

Understaffed and under threat: Paraguay’s park rangers pay the ultimate price

No choice: Why communities in Paraguay are cutting down forests to survive

Double blow to Colombian Amazon and Indigenous groups from armed militants, COVID-19

Marijuana farms expand in Paraguay reserve despite gov’t crackdowns

Protected areas in Paraguay hit hard by illegal marijuana farming

‘On the edge’: Endangered forest cleared for marijuana in Paraguay

Drug trafficking could be putting ‘fragile fisheries’ at risk, study says

Marijuana cultivation whittling away Madagascar’s largest connected forest

Coca farms close in on protected areas, isolated tribes in Peruvian Amazon

Rainforest destruction accelerates in Honduras UNESCO site

Corrupt police caught in bust of Peruvian Amazon drug gang

Colombia gasoline fueling cocaine production

Fire, cattle, cocaine: Deforestation spikes in Guatemalan national park

Land grabbing, cattle ranching ravage Colombian Amazon after FARC demobilization

Latam Eco Review: Some whales may benefit from Japan’s whaling commission exit

Cocaine blamed for rising deforestation in Peru’s Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

‘There are no laws’: Cattle, drugs, corruption destroying Honduras UNESCO site

Peru seizes plane with 30kg of cocaine in Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Latam Eco Review: Kissable sharks and spectacled bears

Latam Eco Review: Salmon escape, jungle drones, and a new biosphere reserve

Colombia: Govt rushes to save national park from rampant deforestation

Peru: How chocolate saved a community and a protected area from the drug trade

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