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Rendering of an oil derrick in the rainforest. AI-generated.

Brazil’s “End-of-the-World” auction for oil and gas drilling (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 16 Dec 2023

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

Sarah Brown 15 Dec 2023

Ancient Amazon earthwork findings spotlight Indigenous land struggles today

Michael Esquer 1 Dec 2023

Sieged by mining and megaprojects, the Munduruku push for land rights in the Amazon

Sam Cowie 1 Dec 2023
Jesi Ferreira de Castro, coordinator of the São Francisco community

Paradise lost? Brazil’s biggest bauxite mining firm denies riverine rights

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 27 Nov 2023

In Brazil’s Amazon, a clandestine road threatens a pristine reserve

Ana Ionova 24 Nov 2023

‘We just want to be left in peace’: In Brazil’s Amazon, soy ambitions loom over Indigenous land

Ana Ionova 9 Nov 2023

Drug trafficking imperils national park and Indigenous reserves in the Peruvian Amazon

Enrique Vera 3 Nov 2023
Juliette Naipanoi Lekiale, of the Samburu community of Kenya. Image courtesy of Rights and Resources Initiative.

Namibia hosted Africa’s 1st community-led conservation congress. Where will it lead?

Victoria Schneider 1 Nov 2023

Amazon drought: Much damage still to come (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Rosimeire Araújo Silva 1 Nov 2023
Cattle raising in recently destroyed forestland in the municipality Aripuanã, in Mato Grosso state.

Amazon recovery offers hope of big rewards but poses equally big challenges

Carla Ruas 31 Oct 2023

Lula partially blocks anti-Indigenous land rights bill, but trouble isn’t over

Sarah Brown 24 Oct 2023

Brazil strikes intruders of Amazon’s most deforested Indigenous land

Sarah Brown 11 Oct 2023
Community members celebrating the withdrawal of the lawsuit against SAVE Rivers.

Small wins for Indigenous Malaysian activists in dispute with timber giant

Danielle Keeton-Olsen 4 Oct 2023

Amazon drought cuts river traffic, leaves communities without water and supplies

André Schröder 3 Oct 2023
An uncontacted Indigenous community in Acre, Brazil.

New online map tracks threats to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon

Sarah Brown 27 Sep 2023

Brazil Supreme Court quashes time frame proposal in win for Indigenous rights

Sarah Brown 22 Sep 2023
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Meatpacking giant and Amazon deforester JBS bid for NYSE listing challenged

Shanna Hanbury 20 Sep 2023
Aldenísio Pereira da Silva, a teacher of Indigenous education in the Tabalascada Indigenous Community.

In Roraima, Indigenous communities forge sustainable solutions amid threats

Amanda Magnani 19 Sep 2023
Indigenous mobilization in Brasilia on the Esplanada dos Ministérios against bill 490 and against the time frame for it to be voted on by the court. Image by Cícero Pedrosa Neto/Amazônia Real.

Will Brazil’s Supreme Court rule against Indigenous land rights? (commentary)

Dinamam Tuxá and Suzanne Pelletier 28 Aug 2023
Squirrel monkeys are one of many creatures of Yasuni National Park. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

What drives and halts tropical deforestation? Analyzing 24 years of data

Liz Kimbrough 24 Aug 2023
River in the Western Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

The deceptions of the Amazon Summit in Belém (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 17 Aug 2023
A channel-billed toucan in Yasuní National Park.

Can upcoming referendum in Ecuador stop oil drilling in Yasuní National Park?

Kimberley Brown 11 Aug 2023
A coral reef and fish in the mouth of the Amazon River.

Amazon Summit nations agree on saving rainforest — but not on conservation goals

Sarah Brown 11 Aug 2023

Brazilian authorities launch probe into ‘Amazon’s largest single deforester’

André Schröder 10 Aug 2023
Along the Via Auca, it is common to find patches of deforested land that will later be planted with agricultural or agroforestry crops.

Oil palm and balsa plantations trigger deforestation in Ecuadorian Amazon

Ana Cristina Alvarado 8 Aug 2023

Amazon Summit sparks hope for coordinated efforts from the rainforest nations

Sarah Brown 4 Aug 2023
Hawks fly along BR230 in the iTerêrim Marmelos Indigenous Territory in Amazonas. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazonia Real via Wikimedia Commons (CC 2.0).

In Brazil’s Amazon, a ‘new agricultural frontier’ threatens protected lands

Ana Ionova 27 Jul 2023
Ibama seizes a shipment of illegally extracted Ipê

Study confirms surge in deforestation in Indigenous lands under Bolsonaro

Jenny Gonzales 21 Jul 2023
Katia Silene shows the Brazil nuts.

Divided by mining: Vale’s new rail track fractures an Amazon Indigenous group

Maurício Angelo, Sarah Sax 17 Jul 2023
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Bill stripping Peru’s isolated Indigenous people of land and protections scrapped

Dimitri Selibas 5 Jul 2023

A standing Amazon Rainforest could create an $8 billion bioeconomy: Study

Sarah Brown 4 Jul 2023

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