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Transformance: Finding common ground in the Amazon (commentary)

Gus Greenstein 12 Sep 2017

Uncontacted Amazon indigenous groups reportedly attacked by outsiders

Barbara Fraser 11 Sep 2017

Zero tolerance of deforestation likely only way to save Amazon gateway

Claire Asher 7 Sep 2017

Temer’s Amazon mining decrees derided by protestors, annulled by judge

Zoe Sullivan 30 Aug 2017

Intact forests crucial to Amazon ecosystem resilience, stable climate

Claire Salisbury 28 Aug 2017

Quilombolas’ community land rights under attack by Brazilian ruralists

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 25 Aug 2017

Temer pays back ruralists: opens Brazil, Amazon to mining, say critics

Zoe Sullivan 24 Aug 2017
A golden tamarin monkey, a species known to use forest corridors. Photo courtesy of Stuart Pimm/SavingSpecies.

Identifying the world’s top biodiversity investment returns

Genevieve Belmaker 21 Aug 2017

Indigenous groups win key land rights victory in Brazil’s Supreme Court

Sue Branford 17 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Indians on the march in last ditch effort to stop land theft

Sue Branford 14 Aug 2017

Brazilian firm wants to build new dams in Amazon’s Aripuanã basin

Sue Branford 10 Aug 2017

Monkey rediscovered in Brazil after 80 years

Christina Selby 9 Aug 2017

Study examines sex-specific responses of Neotropical bats to habitat fragmentation

Mike Gaworecki 2 Aug 2017

Brazil’s Temer threatens constitutional indigenous land rights

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Aug 2017

Five promising stories for Global Tiger Day

Mongabay.com 28 Jul 2017

Landless Workers Movement protest occupies farms of Brazil’s elite

Jenny Gonzales 28 Jul 2017

Amazonian city drags down fish stocks in 1,000-kilometer shadow

John Cannon 28 Jul 2017

Study links most Amazon deforestation to 128 slaughterhouses

Eduardo Pegurier 27 Jul 2017

Visualizing the impacts of human disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jul 2017

Brazil’s indigenous Munduruku occupy dam site, halt construction

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Jul 2017

Charcoal and cattle ranching tearing apart the Gran Chaco

John Cannon 19 Jul 2017

Big mammals flourish as Cerrado park’s savanna comes back

John Cannon 14 Jul 2017

Soy King Blairo Maggi wields power over Amazon’s fate, say critics

Jenny Gonzales 13 Jul 2017

Temer signs law that could see millions of acres lost in the Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 13 Jul 2017

Amazon infrastructure EIAs under-assess biodiversity; scientists offer solutions

Claire Salisbury 6 Jul 2017

Is Brazil’s Forest Code failing to reduce deforestation?

John Cannon 6 Jul 2017

Study: Brazilian mega-dams caused far more flooding than EIA predicted

Claire Salisbury 5 Jul 2017

Norway vexed as Brazil sends mixed message on Amazon forest protection

Jenny Gonzales 27 Jun 2017

Is intensification of beef production really a solution to Amazonian deforestation?

Mike Gaworecki 23 Jun 2017

Unexamined synergies: dam building and mining go together in the Amazon

Zoe Sullivan 22 Jun 2017

Brazil evicts 80 rural peasant families, awards land thieves parcel

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 21 Jun 2017

International action a must to stop irreversible harm of Amazon dams, say experts

Claire Salisbury 19 Jun 2017

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