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Vatican calls landmark meeting to conserve Amazon, protect indigenous peoples

Justin Catanoso 4 Oct 2019

New report reveals northern Ecuadorian region has lost 61 percent of forests

Antonio José Paz Cardona 4 Sep 2019
The passenger boat that sits empty and unused outside of Andres Machoa’s home in Llanchama, a symbol of unfulfilled promises by the oil industry. Photo by Kimberley Brown for Mongabay.

Life on the Amazon oil frontier: From exploration to ecotourism

Kimberley Brown 2 Aug 2019

Complicating the narrative about indigenous communities and their struggles (insider)

Kimberley Brown 18 Jul 2019

Heart of Ecuador’s Yasuni, home to uncontacted tribes, opens for oil drilling

Kimberley Brown 5 Jul 2019

For Ecuador’s Sápara, saving the forest means saving their language

Sarah Sax 2 Jul 2019
Indigenous protesters and self-proclaimed river defenders demonstrate against Brazilian dams. Image courtesy of Amazon Watch.

Amazon infrastructure puts 68% of indigenous lands / protected areas at risk: report

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jun 2019

Ecuador’s isolated indigenous tribes: Stuck between oil and state neglect

Isabela Ponce 24 May 2019

New report examines drivers of rising Amazon deforestation on country-by-country basis

Mongabay.com 23 May 2019
Indigenous Waorani march through the streets of Puyo after their legal victory against the government, during a strong downpour. Photo by Mitch Anderson/Amazon Frontlines.

Historic win by Ecuador’s Waorani could re-shape extraction activities

Kimberley Brown 7 May 2019
A shark catch in Pucusana, Perú. Image courtesy of Oceana.

Weak governance undermines South America’s ocean ecosystems

Michelle Carrere 26 Apr 2019

Waters off Galápagos have way more alien species than previously known

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Apr 2019

Indigenous leaders decry Colombia’s deadly crackdown on land protesters

Taran Volckhausen 4 Apr 2019
Tapiatpia, the first solar canoe, on its 25-day inaugural voyage from Lago Agrio in northeastern Ecuador toward Sharamentsa in 2017. Image by Fundación Kara Solar.

Conceived in a dream, new solar canoe will serve Amazon tribes

Gabriela Balarezo 3 Apr 2019
A Shiwiar man paints his face with paint made from local plants before the assembly starts. Photo by Kimberley A. Brown.

Indigenous groups in Ecuador convene to talk resistance in the Amazon

Kimberley Brown 1 Apr 2019

Latam Eco Review: Pumas hate disco and Ecuador’s newly described glass frog

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2019
Waorani women in Quito at court proceedings. Photo by Sophie Pinchetti for Amazon Frontlines.

Indigenous Waorani, protesting ‘rushed’ hearing, shut down court with song

Kimberley Brown 15 Mar 2019

Indigenous group sues Ecuador for earmarking its land for oil drilling

Kimberley Brown 5 Mar 2019

Latam Eco Review: Icon status for jaguars and fears over lithium mining

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2019

UN passes first ever declaration for peasant rights

Kimberley Brown 20 Feb 2019

Ecuador’s indigenous Cofán hail court-ordered end to mining on their land

Antonio José Paz Cardona 11 Feb 2019
Indigenous women march in Puyo, Ecuador on March 8, 2018. Photo by Kimberley Brown/Mongabay.

To fight deforestation first tackle inequality, study says

Kimberley Brown 8 Feb 2019

Latam Eco Review: ‘Andean ostrich’ gets some bling and Patagonia pumas protected

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2019
Rainbow over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Time to shift focus to existing environmental laws, says new UN report

Kimberley Brown 25 Jan 2019
Some of Susana Simbana's wooden creations. Photo by Kimberley Brown for Mongabay.

Ecuador’s artisans struggle to save wooden toy culture

Kimberley Brown 21 Jan 2019

Latam Eco Review: Pirate fishers in the Caribbean and many new reserves created

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2019
The masks of Julio Toaquiza have been exhibited in various countries such as Colombia and Bolivia, where it has been recognized that their art is unique. Photo by Jonatan Rosas for Mongabay.

The man who made Ecuador’s wooden Tigua masks famous

Kimberley Brown 16 Jan 2019

New species of tree frog from Ecuador has a mysterious claw

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2019

Top camera trapping stories of 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 31 Dec 2018
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

An expanding frontier: Top 10 global palm oil stories of 2018

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Dec 2018
A child receives clean drinking water from a rain catchment tank in Aboquehuira, a village of the Siona indigenous people whose traditional water source is contaminated. Image by Dan Collyns for Mongabay.

With no oil cleanup in sight, Amazon tribes harvest rain for clean water

Dan Collyns 27 Dec 2018

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