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Exposing organized crime in the Amazon: Q&A with Robert Muggah of the Igarapé Institute

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2021

New map shows where the 80% of species we don’t know about may be hiding

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 31 Mar 2021

BlackRock must commit to Indigenous rights — not just climate change (commentary)

David Hill 19 Mar 2021

Indigenous rights take a hit under cover of pandemic, new report says

Meghie Rodrigues 5 Mar 2021
The Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Colombia’s national parks at a crossroads as new director installed

Aurora Solá 3 Mar 2021

Over half of global environmental defender murders in 2020 in Colombia: report

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 2 Mar 2021
A fire in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

The Amazon lost an area of primary forest larger than Israel in 2020, new analysis finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Jan 2021
Despite the fear instilled by the armed narco-terrorist groups, the Indigenous Siona have organized to monitor their territory and prevent further deforestation. Photo: Mateo Barriga Salazar / Amazon Frontlines

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

Ana Cristina Basantes 8 Jan 2021
Blue Anole from Colombia. Photo by Thomas Marent

For Latin America’s environmental defenders, Escazú Agreement is a voice and a shield

Genevieve Glatsky 7 Jan 2021

Colombia’s sustainable forestry drive boosts biodiversity and business

Dimitri Selibas 30 Dec 2020

Geography on the plate: The culinary rediscovery of Colombia’s biodiversity

Aurora Solá 29 Dec 2020

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

Vanessa Romo 29 Dec 2020
Blackwater oxbow lake, rainforest, and a whitewater river in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Dec 2020
Red passion vine flower in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Colombia’s forests lurch between deforestation and the hope for a sustainable future

Dimitri Selibas 24 Dec 2020

Nazareth Cabrera fights for Colombia’s Indigenous Uitoto with the strength of her words

Carol Sánchez 17 Dec 2020

In the Colombian Amazon, a leader trains her people to save the forest

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 16 Dec 2020

Palm oil, coca and gangs close in on Colombia’s Indigenous Nukak Makú

Tatiana Pardo Ibarra 10 Dec 2020
The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, a remote archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Photo by Subiet via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Through war, wildfire and pandemic, the world’s seed vaults hold strong

Liz Kimbrough 8 Dec 2020

Colombian environmental official assassinated in southern Meta department

Antonio José Paz Cardona 7 Dec 2020

Technology innovations look to change the cacao landscape in Colombia

Aurora Solá 10 Nov 2020

Indigenous Colombians mount a spiritual defense of the Amazon

Ocean Malandra 4 Nov 2020

New Latin American treaty could help protect women conservation leaders — and all environment defenders

Mike Gaworecki 28 Oct 2020

Camila Chindoy, the Indigenous daughter poised to lead her Amazon community

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 22 Oct 2020

‘Digital land grab’ deprives traditional LatAm peoples of ancestral lands: Report

Sue Branford 21 Oct 2020
Rainbow over the Colombian Amazon. Photo © Wade Davis

Colombia, ethnobotany, and America’s decline: An interview with Wade Davis

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Oct 2020

Mining covers more than 20% of Indigenous territory in the Amazon

John Cannon 9 Oct 2020
Satellite image of Tribugá, Colombia. Courtesy of Zoom.Earth.

Battle over proposed Colombian port at Tribugá puts sustainable development in focus

Dimitri Selibas 5 Oct 2020

In the Amazon, women are key to forest conservation

Mike Gaworecki 2 Sep 2020

Pioneer study maps regions of Amazon tree flora and may help in future efforts at species conservation

Jenny Gonzales 13 Aug 2020
Santos Sauna at a sacred coastal site where the Sierra Nevada meets the sea.

COVID is killing Indigenous leaders (commentary)

Mark Plotkin 11 Aug 2020

Is Chinese investment driving a sharp increase in jaguar poaching?

Rebecca Branford 11 Aug 2020

In Colombia, a protected park is buffeted by social, environmental conflicts

Antonio José Paz Cardona 7 Aug 2020

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