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Flooded forest in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Brazil’s ‘land-grabbers law’ threatens Amazonia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 25 May 2020

As their land claim stalls, Brazil’s Munduruku face pressure from soybean farms

Caio de Freitas Paes 21 May 2020
Uncontacted indigenous group in the Amazon photographed by authorities with the Brazilian Indian affairs agency FUNAI. Photo by Gleison Miranda-FUNAI.

Indigenous COVID-19 cases top 500, danger mapped in Brazil agricultural hub

Sam Cowie 18 May 2020

As habitat degradation threatens Amazon species, one region offers hope

Taran Volckhausen 14 May 2020

Amazon road projects could lead to Belize-size loss of forest, study shows

Maurício Angelo 14 May 2020

Bolsonaro revives a plan to carve a road through one of Brazil’s last untouched areas

Fernanda Wenzel/oeco 11 May 2020

Brazil sacks officials who curbed deforestation on Amazon indigenous lands

Jenny Gonzales 5 May 2020

Soy made the Cerrado a breadbasket; climate change may end that

Sarah Sax, Maurício Angelo 5 May 2020

Takeover of Nigerian reserve highlights uphill battle to save forests

Orji Sunday 4 May 2020

Murder, logging and land theft: inside a crime factory in the Amazon

Maurício Monteiro 30 Apr 2020

In the Philippines’ Boracay, flying foxes are going, going, gone

Jun N. Aguirre 27 Apr 2020

As investment giant BlackRock pulls back from coal, NGOs urge the same for biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 17 Apr 2020

Rapid deforestation of Brazilian Amazon could bring next pandemic: Experts

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 15 Apr 2020

Brazilian government office responds to Fearnside’s BR-319 oil & gas commentary

Philip M. Fearnside 8 Apr 2020

BR-319 illegal side road threatens Amazon protected area, indigenous land (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Lucas Ferrante, Maryane B. T. de Andrade 27 Mar 2020

New player starts clearing rainforest in world’s biggest oil palm project

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 24 Mar 2020

Extreme El Niño drought, fires contribute to Amazon insect collapse: Study

Taran Volckhausen 13 Mar 2020

Brazil drastically reduces controls over suspicious Amazon timber exports

Thais Borges, Sue Branford 11 Mar 2020

US economy will take biggest hit if we continue with business as usual: report

Mongabay.com 10 Mar 2020

Oil and gas project threatens Brazil’s last great block of Amazon forest (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 9 Mar 2020

Raze here, save there: Do biodiversity offsets work for people or ecosystems?

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Feb 2020

On anniversary of nun’s murder Amazon land rights activists at high risk

Sam Cowie 27 Feb 2020

Amazon Tipping Point puts Brazil’s agribusiness, energy sector at risk: Top scientists

Shanna Hanbury 24 Feb 2020

Private firms will pay soy farmers not to deforest Brazil’s Cerrado

Sarah Sax 11 Feb 2020
Nyonié savannaah, Gabon. Image by Christian Vigna via Wikicommons (CC BY-NC-4.0)

Eco-tourism isn’t enough to develop a country: Q&A with Gabon’s environment minister, Lee White

Matthew Hattingh 10 Feb 2020

Vale has filed hundreds of requests to exploit indigenous lands in Amazon

Maurício Angelo 27 Jan 2020

A new dawn: The story of deforestation in the next decade must be different to the last (commentary)

Bastien Sachet 16 Jan 2020
Oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Activists seek purge after Indonesia court rules forest plantations illegal

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2020

Bolsonaro’s Brazil: 2020 could see revived Amazon mining assault — part two

Sue Branford, Thais Borges 31 Dec 2019

EU/Chinese soy consumption linked to species impacts in Brazilian Cerrado: study

Sarah Sax 24 Dec 2019

Central American countries pledge to protect Mesoamerica’s ‘5 Great Forests’

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2019
Sunrise in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Dec 2019

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