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Glass frog in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rainforest Alliance Certification gets a 2020 upgrade

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2020

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

Aldo Benítez 9 Jul 2020

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jul 2020

Marijuana cultivation whittling away Madagascar’s largest connected forest

Edward Carver 29 May 2020

Using satellites to alert an Amazonian indigenous community of coca encroachment (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Apr 2020

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

Chris Fagan 9 Dec 2019

Settlers, soldiers and insurgents close in on Colombia’s indigenous Jiw

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 9 Oct 2019

As the Amazon burns, Colombia’s forests decimated for cattle and coca

Antonio José Paz Cardona 26 Sep 2019

Rainforest destruction accelerates in Honduras UNESCO site

Taran Volckhausen 13 Aug 2019

Peru’s crackdown on coca pushes illegal growers toward protected areas

Vanessa Romo 30 Jul 2019

Corrupt police caught in bust of Peruvian Amazon drug gang

Bethan John 19 Jul 2019
Small-scale deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Colombia gasoline fueling cocaine production

Taran Volckhausen 28 Jun 2019

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

Maxwell Radwin 21 Jun 2019

Land grabbing, cattle ranching ravage Colombian Amazon after FARC demobilization

Taran Volckhausen 30 May 2019

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

Mongabay.com 26 Jan 2019

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

Vanessa Romo 30 Dec 2018

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

Taran Volckhausen 6 Dec 2018

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

Vanessa Romo 25 Oct 2018

Bolivian coca crops follow a planned highway through indigenous lands

Iván Paredes Tamayo 19 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Kissable sharks and spectacled bears

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2018

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

Mongabay.com 8 Sep 2018

Colombia: Govt rushes to save national park from rampant deforestation

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 16 Aug 2018

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

Vanessa Romo 6 Jul 2018

In Peru, coca puts one of the world’s best coffee crops at risk

Vanessa Romo 18 Jun 2018

Illegal cattle ranching deforests Mexico’s massive Lacandon Jungle

Rodrigo Soberanes 14 Mar 2018
Bison in the Janos Valley of Chihuahua, Mexico. A population of about 100 bison lives in Mexico, where they are listed as a species in danger of extinction. The herd’s trips from the U.S. to Mexico have been curtailed by a hardening of the border in the Janos Valley. Photo by Rurik List courtesy of CONABIO.

Rewriting biological history: Trump border wall puts wildlife at risk

Rebecca Kessler 12 Feb 2018

Trumping Colombia’s peace: U.S. drug war threatens fragile accord, forests

Sean Mowbray 5 Feb 2018

Palm oil mounts ‘new offensive’ in Colombia while workers decry labor conditions

Bram Ebus 27 Oct 2017
A cow in Colombia's Valle de Cocora National Park. Photo by Tim Snell via Flickr.

One cow per hectare: deforestation in Colombia after FARC’s exit

Esteban Montaño 6 Jun 2017

The resistance of Peruvian coffee

Jack Lo Lau 30 May 2017

Rebel road expansion brings deforestation to remote Colombian Amazon

Taran Volckhausen 19 May 2017

Guatemala declares state of emergency as rainforest goes up in flames

Sandra Cuffe 19 Apr 2017

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