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Peru’s modern history of migration and settlement

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Dec 2024

Communities warn of threat to ecosystems from Brazil bridge project

Lobato Felizola 12 Dec 2024

Andes glacier melt threatens Amazon’s rivers & intensifies droughts

Amanda Magnani 11 Dec 2024

Narco airstrips beset Indigenous communities in Peruvian Amazon

Mongabay Latam 9 Dec 2024

Loggers and carbon projects forge odd partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2024

‘Bear’s-eye camera’ reveals elusive Andean bear cannibalism and treetop mating

Liz Kimbrough 6 Dec 2024

The uncertain future of Amazon river dolphins amid historic drought

Mayala Fernandes 6 Dec 2024
A Shipibo woman does the Shipibo-Conibo traditional embroitery art.

Gaps in Peru’s peatland policies harm conservation and Indigenous Shipibo: Study

Aimee Gabay 5 Dec 2024

Bolivia’s internal colonization and its March to the East

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Dec 2024

Pesticide exposure drives up rural women’s cancer risk in Brazil farming belt

Mayala Fernandes 5 Dec 2024

In Chile, discovery of shallowest red hydrocoral forest yet surprises scientists

Rocío González Trujillo 5 Dec 2024

Certified ethanol produced in Brazil for global airlines linked to slave labor

Poliana Dallabrida from Repórter Brasil 5 Dec 2024

Severe drought in Peruvian Amazon isolated more than 130 Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 5 Dec 2024
Fishing boats in Chimbote, Peru.

Traditional fishers in Peru guard the coast from illegal fishing

Leslie Moreno Custodio 5 Dec 2024

15 illegal narco-trafficking airstrips found near Peru Indigenous communities

Mongabay Latam 4 Dec 2024

Climate financing should come from oil and gas ‘super’ profits, study says

Maxwell Radwin 2 Dec 2024

In Brazil’s ‘water tank’, communities resist mining to preserve their water and livelihoods

Beatriz Miranda, Íria Borges 30 Nov 2024
Satellite imagery captured September 2024 by Planet Labs shows a fire burning along the boundary between Xingu Indigenous Park and Capoto/Jarina Indigenous Territory. The territories are surrounded by denuded industrial farm fields.

Fires rip through Indigenous territories in Brazilian Amazon

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Nov 2024

In Bolivia’s flooded savannas, ranching aims to boost grasslands conservation

Brian Kluepfel 29 Nov 2024

The illegal runways exposing the Kakataibo people to drug violence in Peru

Mongabay Latam 29 Nov 2024
The Putumayo is a long Amazonian river that begins in Colombia and flows into the Brazilian Amazon. Photo courtesy of Michelle Carrere.

Women in Putumayo turn to fish farming and away from the coca industry

Iñigo Alexander 28 Nov 2024

Brazil plans new reserves to curb deforestation near contested Amazon roads

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Nov 2024
Two Paĩ leaders.

Paraguay’s Indigenous Paĩ Tavyterã communities fight invaders, fires and drought

Aimee Gabay 28 Nov 2024

In Colombia, a simple fencing fix offers a win-win for wildlife and ranchers

Marlowe Starling 28 Nov 2024

Migration opens up new territories in the Brazilian Amazon in the 20th century

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Nov 2024

Nations should redirect 1% of military spending towards reforestation, Mexico proposes

Maxwell Radwin 27 Nov 2024

Researchers find high levels of mercury in Amazon’s Madeira River water & fish

Kevin Damasio 27 Nov 2024

Reserve in Brazilian Amazon struggles as ‘aggressive’ deforestation spreads

Ruth Kamnitzer 27 Nov 2024
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Brazil beef industry still struggling with deforestation from indirect suppliers, survey finds

Maxwell Radwin 26 Nov 2024

Researcher discovers new role played by manatees, ‘the gardeners of the Amazon’

Tiago Mota e Silva 25 Nov 2024

The effects of mass migration in Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Nov 2024

Elephant seal colonies in Argentina face long recovery after ‘catastrophic’ avian flu

Maxwell Radwin 22 Nov 2024

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