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Portrait of Sarayaku Warmikuna, member of Mujeres Amazónicas (Amazonian Women). The women of the community were the first to be part of the collective known as Amazonian Women. Image courtesy of Esteffany Bravo.

A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries

Astrid Arellano, Yvette Sierra Praeli 31 May 2022

On a Honduran island, a community effort grows to protect its precious reefs

Sandra Weiss 25 Mar 2022

Honduras bans open-pit mining, citing environmental and public health concerns

Maxwell Radwin 3 Mar 2022

Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste problem

Sean Mowbray 25 Jan 2022

Across Latin America, palm oil violations abound — with little accountability

Tras las huellas de la palma alliance 5 Jan 2022

Inga tree points to way out of slash-and-burn for Central American farmers

Maxwell Radwin 27 Oct 2021
A mural of murdered activists Berta Cáceres in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Photo by disoniador via Pixabay.

Former dam executive found guilty in the killing of Berta Cáceres

Mongabay.com 6 Jul 2021

In the Honduran Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, an illegal road for cattle and drugs

Ashoka Mukpo 13 May 2021

Drugs and agriculture cause deforestation to skyrocket at Honduran UNESCO site

Karen Paredes, Leonardo Guevara, Lesly Frazier 30 Apr 2021

Electronic ears listen to poachers in a key Central American jaguar habitat

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Feb 2021

The perfect firestorm: COVID-19 in Mesoamerica’s indigenous territories (commentary)

Jeremy Radachowsky 10 Jun 2020

Palm oil, fire pushing protected areas in Honduras to the ‘point of no return’

Leonardo Guevara, Lesly Frazier 30 Dec 2019

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

Mongabay.com 18 Dec 2019

Researchers urge sustainability as palm oil tightens its grip on Latin America

Antonio José Paz Cardona 20 Nov 2019

Rainforest destruction accelerates in Honduras UNESCO site

Taran Volckhausen 13 Aug 2019

La Mosquitia: Dangerous territory for scarlet macaws in Honduras

Jennifer Ávila 1 Jul 2019

‘It’s getting worse’: National parks in Honduras hit hard by palm oil

Max Radwin 11 Apr 2019
Salted shark meat, called cecina, drying in the sun. Image courtesy of MarAlliance.

Fishing for sharks in Honduras’s sanctuary seas: Q&A with biologist Gabriela Ochoa

Michelle Carrere 8 Apr 2019
Capybaras, Colombia. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay

Latam Eco Review: Resistance, hope and camera traps

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

‘There are no laws’: Cattle, drugs, corruption destroying Honduras UNESCO site

Taran Volckhausen 6 Dec 2018

Honduras aims to save vital wildlife corridor from deforestation

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2018

Racing to save the world’s amazing frogs with Jonathan Kolby

Mike Gaworecki 18 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Five newly described snakes named by auction in Ecuador

Mongabay.com 6 Jul 2018
Cesar Benedict goes on air at Faluma Bimetu community radio station in Triunfo de la Cruz. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay.

Honduras: Indigenous Garifuna use radio to fight for their land

Christopher Clark 25 Jun 2018

Latam Eco Review: Colombia’s last nomadic tribe faces extinction

Mongabay.com 11 May 2018

Cooperative agroforestry empowers indigenous women in Honduras

Monica Pelliccia 16 Apr 2018

Honduras arrests alleged mastermind of Berta Cáceres’s murder

Mongabay 7 Mar 2018

Mesoamerican Reef gets improving bill of health

Mongabay.com 22 Jan 2018

Suspect Beef: Central America

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2017

Cattle ranching devours Nicaragua’s Bosawás Biosphere Reserve

Michelle Carrere 10 Mar 2017

Protected areas found to be ‘significant’ sources of carbon emissions

Benji Jones 17 Feb 2017

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