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Latam Eco Review: Jaguar protection plan signed by 14 Latin countries

Mongabay.com 15 Dec 2018

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

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

One map to rule them all: Indonesia launches unified land-use chart

Basten Gokkon 13 Dec 2018

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

Max Nathanson 10 Dec 2018
Members of the Tosepan cooperative’s youth solar panel installation team and the ONergia solar cooperative put the finishing touches on a domestic panel installation while community members chip in. Image by Ethan Bien for Mongabay.

‘Light for everyone’: Indigenous youth mount a solar-powered resistance

Ethan Bien 10 Dec 2018

COP24: Human rights concerns cast a shadow over U.N. climate summit

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Dec 2018

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

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 6 Dec 2018

7 convicted of killing Honduran indigenous activist Berta Cáceres

Mongabay.com 5 Dec 2018

Santo Antônio mega-dam on Brazil’s Madeira River disrupts local lives

Sonya Cunningham 3 Dec 2018

Tax havens and Brazilian Amazon deforestation linked: study

Giovanni Ortolani 21 Nov 2018
A sign near Buru Energy’s Yulleroo fracking site. Image by Alexander Hayes via Flickr (CC BY 4.0).

Fracking threatens Aboriginal land rights in Western Australia

Grace Dungey, Nick Rodway 21 Nov 2018

Purus-Madeira: the Amazon arc of deforestation marches north

Gustavo Faleiros, Marcio Isensee e Sá 20 Nov 2018

Bolsonaro pledges government shakeup, deregulation, Amazon development

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Nov 2018

For APEC’s poorest member, flashy cars point to another boondoggle

Lucy EJ Woods 16 Nov 2018

Merger of Brazil’s agriculture and environment ministries in limbo

Jenny Gonzales 12 Nov 2018
A spectacled bear in the rehabilitation and reintroduction program at Chaparrí. Photo by Matthew Weaver.

Peru cracks down after environmental defenders’ murders

Matthew Weaver, Rajmonda Rexhi 9 Nov 2018

China increasingly involved in Brazil’s ambitious Amazon rail network

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Nov 2018

Evicted for a showpiece project, this PNG community fights for justice

Lucy EJ Woods 8 Nov 2018

Cerrado farm community fights for life against dam and eucalyptus growers

Anna Sophie Gross 7 Nov 2018

In funding palm oil giants, banks may share in ‘sins of the companies’

Tessa Toumbourou 7 Nov 2018

Deforestation-linked Brazilian beef still flowing into international markets: report

Claire Asher 6 Nov 2018

Chainsaw Massacre: Protected areas in danger in Brazil’s state of Rondônia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside and Paulo Vilela Cruz 31 Oct 2018

The Brazilian government’s land war against rebel slave descendants

Anna Sophie Gross 29 Oct 2018

Violence spikes during Brazil elections, rural minorities fear worse

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 24 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

Is S&P Dow Jones greenwashing conflict palm oil? (commentary)

Gaurav Madan 16 Oct 2018
Aloisio Sampaio, a trade unionist known as Alenquer, the leader of the KM Mil landless peasant occupation. He was murdered on 11 October. Image by Thais Borges.

Landless movement leader assassinated in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 Oct 2018

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

Philip M. Fearnside 12 Oct 2018

Kenya: Indigenous Ogiek face eviction from their ancestral forest… again

Nathan Siegel 8 Oct 2018

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

Jenny Gonzales 5 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Kissable sharks and spectacled bears

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2018

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