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Goldman Prize honors Brazilian investigation linking JBS & deforestation

Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests

Brazil boosts protection of Amazon mangroves with new reserves in Pará state

Cross-border Indigenous efforts in Peru & Brazil aim to protect isolated groups

Brazil’s illegal gold trade takes a hammering, but persists underground

A short walk through Amazon time: Interview with archaeologist Anna Roosevelt

Alis Ramírez: A defender of the Colombian Amazon now living as a refugee in New Zealand

Amazon prosecutors get sharper impact tool to charge illegal gold dealers

‘Another catastrophe’: Flooding destroys Indigenous agroforestry projects in Peru’s Amazon

Lula’s deforestation goals threatened by frustrated environmental agents

Fanned by El Niño, megafires in Brazil threaten Amazon’s preserved areas

Squeezed-out Amazon smallholders seek new frontiers in Brazil’s Roraima state

Megafires are spreading in the Amazon — and they are here to stay

Ecuador government weighs delaying closure of controversial ITT oil block

Critics decry controversial bill that loosens deforestation restrictions in Peru

From murder to mining, threats abound in Colombian Amazon Indigenous reserves

Meet the think tank behind the agribusiness’ legislative wins in Brazil

Grassroots efforts and an Emmy-winning film help Indigenous fight in Brazil

Lula’s ambitious green agenda runs up against Congress’s agribusiness might

Direct funding of Indigenous peoples can protect global rainforests & the climate (commentary)

The waters of the Xingu: A source of life at risk of death

Promise of full demarcation for isolated Amazon tribe rings hollow for some

Illegal gold mining devastates Peruvian Amazon river and communities

Amazon chocolatiers: Biofactory offers ‘new way of living’ for forest communities

The year in rainforests: 2023

In 2023, Mongabay’s reporting fellows covered Earth amid crisis — and hope

With half its surface water area lost, an Amazonian state runs dry

Company sells Indigenous land in Amazonas as NFTs without community’s knowledge

Colombian companies defy laws, push Amazon carbon projects in Indigenous lands

Mega oil and gas auction in the Brazilian Amazon may threaten Indigenous lands

Outcry as Brazil Congress overrides president to revive anti-Indigenous law

Science panel presents COP28 with blueprint for saving the Amazon

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