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Invaded Uru-eu-wau-wau indigenous reserve awaits relief by Brazil’s new government

Gustavo Faleiros 14 Feb 2019

Dam déjà vu: 2 Brazil mining waste disasters in 3 years raise alarms

Zoe Sullivan and Caio de Freitas Paes 11 Feb 2019

New appointments, new policies don’t bode well for Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 4 Feb 2019

Will President Bolsonaro withdraw Brazil from the Paris Agreement? (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 31 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro government reveals plan to develop the ‘Unproductive Amazon’

Jan Rocha 28 Jan 2019

Indigenous communities in post-FARC Colombia struggle to destigmatize sacred coca leaf

Margaux Maxwell 23 Jan 2019
The masks of Julio Toaquiza have been exhibited in various countries such as Colombia and Bolivia, where it has been recognized that their art is unique. Photo by Jonatan Rosas for Mongabay.

The man who made Ecuador’s wooden Tigua masks famous

Kimberley Brown 16 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro acts; Brazil’s socio-environmental groups resist

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 14 Jan 2019

Brazil’s indigenous agency acts to protect isolated Kawahiva people

Sue Branford 3 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro hands over indigenous land demarcation to agriculture ministry

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 2 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro shapes administration: Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

Sue Branford; Thais Borges; and Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2018

‘Amazon Besieged’: Q&A with Mongabay contributor Sue Branford about new book

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

Belo Monte dam Xingu River Management Plan violates human rights: finding

Max Nathanson 10 Dec 2018

Amazon indigenous groups and truckers ally to oppose Brazil’s Grainrail

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 6 Dec 2018

Mega-dam costs outweigh benefits, global building spree should end: experts

Claire Asher 29 Nov 2018
Pair of jaguar in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Progress on jaguar conservation in Suriname

Mark J. Plotkin 20 Nov 2018

Bolsonaro pledges government shakeup, deregulation, Amazon development

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Nov 2018

China increasingly involved in Brazil’s ambitious Amazon rail network

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Nov 2018

With a feast of grubs, a tribe makes its case for forest stewardship

Hans Nicholas Jong 30 Oct 2018

Violence spikes during Brazil elections, rural minorities fear worse

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 24 Oct 2018

Amazon and climate science threatened if Bolsonaro elected Brazil’s president (commentary)

17 Latin American scientists 23 Oct 2018

Grainrail: ‘2nd revolution in Brazilian agribusiness’ and Amazon threat

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 22 Oct 2018

Jair Bolsonaro: looming threat to the Amazon and global climate?

Jenny Gonzales 18 Oct 2018

Fate of the Amazon is on the ballot in Brazil’s presidential election (commentary)

Aline C. Soterroni, Fernando M. Ramos, Michael Obersteiner, Stephen Polasky 17 Oct 2018

For an Amazon tribe, phone cameras shine a light on their wildlife

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 15 Oct 2018

Amazonia and the setbacks of Brazil’s political moment (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 12 Oct 2018

8,100-square-mile indigenous reserve recognized in Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 5 Oct 2018

Indonesia’s Teater Potlot takes on the plight of the Sumatran tiger

Taufik Wijaya 19 Sep 2018

Brazilian elections and the environment: where top candidates stand

Jenny Gonzales 17 Sep 2018
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Brazilian legislators break law, attack Amazon, trade freely with world: report

Sue Branford 11 Sep 2018

A Brazilian mourns what was lost in the National Museum fire

Peter Moon 6 Sep 2018
This Globo television screenshot shows the museum on fire from above.

Brazil mourns ‘incalculable loss’ in National Museum fire

Genevieve Belmaker 4 Sep 2018

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