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Leading Amazon dam rights activist, spouse and friend murdered in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 27 Mar 2019

Brazil fails to give adequate public access to Amazon land title data, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2019

Brazil to open indigenous reserves to mining without indigenous consent

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 14 Mar 2019
Julio Cusurichi. Image courtesy of FENAMAD.

Defending the Amazon’s uncontacted peoples: Q&A with Julio Cusurichi

Dan Collyns 13 Mar 2019

Brazil to build long-resisted Amazon transmission line on indigenous land

Jan Rocha 13 Mar 2019

Scott Wallace on the importance of protecting uncontacted indigenous groups in the Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 5 Mar 2019

Brazil wants to legalize agribusiness leasing of indigenous lands

Jenny Gonzales 21 Feb 2019

Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting

Jan Rocha 20 Feb 2019

Brazil sees growing wave of anti-indigenous threats, reserve invasions

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 19 Feb 2019

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

Gustavo Faleiros 14 Feb 2019

Amazon at risk: Brazil plans rapid road and rail infrastructure expansion

Sue Branford 12 Feb 2019

Ecuador’s indigenous Cofán hail court-ordered end to mining on their land

Antonio José Paz Cardona 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

Bans on the bird trade in South America yield mixed results

Mongabay.com 24 Jan 2019

Latam Eco Review: Pirate fishers in the Caribbean and many new reserves created

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro acts; Brazil’s socio-environmental groups resist

Sue Branford, 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, Mauricio Torres 2 Jan 2019
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018
A child receives clean drinking water from a rain catchment tank in Aboquehuira, a village of the Siona indigenous people whose traditional water source is contaminated. Image by Dan Collyns for Mongabay.

With no oil cleanup in sight, Amazon tribes harvest rain for clean water

Dan Collyns 27 Dec 2018

Illegal mining in the Amazon ‘not comparable to any other period of its history’

Kimberley Brown 20 Dec 2018

Bolsonaro shapes administration: Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

Sue Branford, Thais Borges, Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2018

Purus-Madeira: Amazon parks and extraordinary biodiversity at risk now

Gustavo Faleiros, Images by Marcio Isensee e Sá 17 Dec 2018

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

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

COP24: Tropical deforestation risks undermining 1.5-degree warming limit

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 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, Mauricio Torres 6 Dec 2018

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

Claire Asher 29 Nov 2018

Tax havens and Brazilian Amazon deforestation linked: study

Giovanni Ortolani 21 Nov 2018

Bolsonaro pledges government shakeup, deregulation, Amazon development

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 19 Nov 2018

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