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Timber is sorted for transport in Uruará in the state of Pará.

Amazon countries use variety of legal tools to fight environmental crime

Timothy J. Killeen 10 Oct 2025
Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

MPs across Latin America unite to stop fossil fuels in the Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 9 Oct 2025
In just a few months, Global Green have cleared vast swathes of forest in Prey Lang, opening the northern section of the wildlife sanctuary up to more potential deforestation. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024

Gerald Flynn 6 Oct 2025
Deforestation for gold mining in Suriname.

In the Guyana Shield, the fight against deforestation is not ambitious enough

Timothy J. Killeen 3 Oct 2025

The fate of flying rivers could decide Amazon ‘tipping point,’ report says

Maxwell Radwin 26 Sep 2025

In the Andean Amazon, countries struggle to fight deforestation

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Sep 2025
Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo with elders and community leaders.

Protecting Indigenous Amazon lands may also protect public health, study says

Constance Malleret 19 Sep 2025
A Baird's tapir.

Animals that spread seeds are critical for climate solutions

Liz Kimbrough 19 Sep 2025
Cattle ranching

The formula that reduced deforestation in Brazil in the 21st century

Timothy J. Killeen 19 Sep 2025

In Guatemala, young Kaqchikel Maya protect their sacred forest with open mapping

Monica Pelliccia 18 Sep 2025
A Verreaux’s sifaka dancing.

Madagascar’s dry forests need attention, and Verreaux’s sifakas could help

Mino Rakotovao 15 Sep 2025

More deforestation leads to a drier dry season, Amazon study finds

Logan Rance 15 Sep 2025
In this Sep. 26, 2017 photo released by Ibama, the Brazilian Environmental and Renewable Natural Resources Institute, members a firefighter fighta a forest fire affecting Porquinhos Indigenous lands in Maranhao state in Brazil's Amazon basin. Image by Felipe Werneck/Ibama via AP.

More than half the world’s forests fragmented in 20 years — but protection works: Study

Ruth Kamnitzer 11 Sep 2025
A structure built by one of the isolated communities in Loreto, Peru. Image courtesy of ORPIO

Isolated tribes under threat as Peru votes down Yavarí Mirim Indigenous Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 8 Sep 2025

Guatemala closes oil field, increases security in Maya Biosphere Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 5 Sep 2025
A cocoa pod opened by hand. Exclusion of smallholder farmers from markets, a potential consequence of the EUDR, could result in loss of income leading to environmental harms but also exacerbate existing problems including child labor on cocoa farms. “These risks are known,” says Rainforest Alliance’s Fanny Gauttier. “That's something that we have highlighted many times.”

EUDR implementation comes laden with potential unintended consequences

Sean Mowbray 4 Sep 2025
A depiction of a gas flare in Putumayo, Columbia. (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

Despite pledge, Colombia still has ways to expand Amazon oil exploration

Maxwell Radwin 29 Aug 2025

Data debunks spike in Sri Lanka’s elephant killings, points at media hype

Malaka Rodrigo 29 Aug 2025
restored area aerial image

Local forest governance helps jaguars and forests flourish in Guatemala

Monica Pelliccia 25 Aug 2025

Brazil’s land registry holds farmers accountable, but enables deforestation

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Aug 2025

Brazil’s Forestry Code seeks to strengthen forest conservation, but controversies remain

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Aug 2025
Peatlands destruction in Riau.

Who is clearing Indonesia’s forests — and why?

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2025

Strategies against deforestation across the Amazon Basin

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Aug 2025
mining equipment on fire

Cross-border operation cracks down on environmental crimes in the Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 6 Aug 2025

Uncovering forest loss in gorilla park six months after M23 offensive in the DRC

Elodie Toto, Latoya Abulu 31 Jul 2025
A part of Putumayo rainforest showing areas of deforestation.

Illegal roads expand in Colombia’s deforestation hotspots

Mie Hoejris Dahl 25 Jul 2025
Sifting coffee beans in Porciuncula, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

‘Insignificant risk’ EUDR proposal threatens fight against deforestation, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jul 2025
The Barbados threadsnake, a species lost to science for 20 years, was found during an ecological survey on Barbados by the Barbados Ministry of the Environment and National Beautification and Re:wild in March 2025. Image courtesy of Connor Blades

World’s smallest snake spotted by scientists in Barbados after 20-year absence

Liz Kimbrough 23 Jul 2025
Tropical forests in places like Costa Rica (pictured) can be an important source of livelihoods by attracting nature-oriented tourists. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Nearly half of tree species in Mexico and Central America threatened with extinction

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jul 2025
A northern cassowary

Forest connectivity key to preserving PNG’s spectacular rainforest birds: Study

Carolyn Cowan 8 Jul 2025
brown spider monkey Colombia

Forest corridors protect Colombia’s critically endangered brown spider monkey

Sean Mowbray 2 Jul 2025

Nicaragua government tied to illegal land invasions in wildlife refuge, documents suggest

Maxwell Radwin 26 Jun 2025

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