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Doña Oscarina. Photo by Ana Amelia Hamdan / ISA

Doña Oscarina, master ceramicist, documented Indigenous knowledge along the Tiquié River

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Aug 2026
Gold extraction site

Brazil’s mining agency under fire over corruption and omission probes

Fernanda Wenzel 4 Aug 2026

Nicaragua’s gold boom is now encroaching on protected areas and Indigenous land

Maxwell Radwin 3 Aug 2026

PUMA FEST and the community Mongabay Latam has helped build

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Aug 2026
Two golden lion tamarins in Brazil.

Researchers find ‘priority zones’ for yellow fever vaccination of golden lion tamarins

Alex Megerle 30 Jul 2026

The global gold rush consuming the Amazon (commentary)

Robert Muggah 30 Jul 2026
For years, the Parakanã Indigenous people had their territory exploited by around 3,000 invaders. Image by Bruno Peres/Agência Brasil.

Indigenous Parakanã fear election U-turn may spark new invasions in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 29 Jul 2026
Kajkwakratxi-Tapayuna leader Yaiku Suya at an April 2026 public hearing. Image courtesy of Larissa Silva/Rede Juruena Vivo.

Brazil court orders recognition of Indigenous land and apology for historic atrocities

Shanna Hanbury 29 Jul 2026
Tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum), Amazon, Brazil. Image by w_endo via iNaturalist.

Fishers fight for solutions as Brazil lists tambaqui as threatened

Karla Mendes 28 Jul 2026
A truck carrying soybeans surrounded by smoke from fires in a deforested area on the BR-163 highway in Pará state. Image courtesy of Alberto César Araújo/Amazônia Real.

End of Brazil’s Soy Moratorium risks millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest: Study

Shanna Hanbury 28 Jul 2026
Khuiusi Khisetje. Photo by Christian Braga / ISA

Khuiusi Khisêtjê helped his people recover their land and future in the Xingu

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Jul 2026

Scientists call on countries to act on ‘forgotten’ sawfish teeth trade

Spoorthy Raman 23 Jul 2026
avocado plantations

In Michoacán, Mexico, drying soil threatens water supplies and avocados, says study

Caitlin Cooper 23 Jul 2026
Cerros de Mavecure in Colombia's Guainía in July 2026. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Ten years of Mongabay Latam

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jul 2026

For Brazil’s Xokleng people, saving a sacred tree means saving their culture

Letícia Klein 23 Jul 2026
Fire in the Chiquitania forest in the south of Bolivia, September 2024. Image © Juan Karita/AP photo.

Third year of wildfires threaten isolated Indigenous group in Bolivia

Shanna Hanbury 22 Jul 2026
Indigenous people walk through a part of the Amazon River that shows signs of drought in Santa Sofia, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, 2024.

An Indigenous take on Colombia’s new gov’t: Interview with a Putumayo Indigenous leader

Aimee Gabay 22 Jul 2026

Health fears linger in a Brazilian neighborhood built over oil waste

Leandro Barbosa 21 Jul 2026
Banner image: Researcher Nelson Jaén analyzes growth rings from a mahogany tree (Swietenia spp.). Image courtesy of Peter Groenendijk.

Amazon tree rings reveal more intense drought and rainfall in the rainforest

Mongabay.com 21 Jul 2026
A black-faced black spider monkey (Ateles chamek) crossing one of the multilayered bridges. Image courtesy of Sergio Leal.

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

Suzana Camargo 21 Jul 2026
Renato Moraes de Jesus. Photo courtesy of the Conselho Regional de Engenharia e Agronomia do Espírito Santo (Crea-ES)

Renato Moraes de Jesus was a pioneer of Atlantic Forest restoration in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Jul 2026

Peru’s only penguin species at risk from upcoming El Niño and bird flu, experts warn

Dan Collyns 20 Jul 2026

Can ‘fog harvesting’ help solve water scarcity in Chile’s Atacama Desert?

Maxwell Radwin 17 Jul 2026
Under difficult circumstances when food is scarce, capuchin monkeys alter their behavior.

How Costa Rica’s extreme climate changes the social behaviors of white-faced capuchin

Adam Litchkofski 17 Jul 2026

Can harpy eagles attack humans? Amazon case rekindles scientific debate

Tiago Mota e Silva 17 Jul 2026
Amazon rainforest burned in Acre, Brazil, to make way for cattle pastures. Image courtesy of Victor Moriyama/Climate Visuals.

Amazon deforestation falls to 10-year low in first half of 2026

Shanna Hanbury 16 Jul 2026

Invasive giant prawn spreads through protected areas in Brazil

Evanildo da Silveira 16 Jul 2026
Aerial view showing cattle confinement in the Brazilian Amazon, one of the ecosystems affected by illegal deforestation. Image courtesy of Fernando Martinho/Goldman Environmental Prize.

Meat giant JBS silently ditches bolder environmental targets in latest review

Shanna Hanbury 16 Jul 2026
A tannery in Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Image © Ricardo Funari/Lineair/Greenpeace.

European Commission excludes leather from landmark deforestation law

Shanna Hanbury 16 Jul 2026
Six-tubercled Amazon River turtle (Podocnemis sextoberculata). Image by © Andrés Camilo Montes-Correa via iNaturalist.

Brazil lists the Amazon river turtle as endangered for the first time

Karla Mendes 15 Jul 2026
Drone capturing a raptor in flight over the Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How Brazil’s federal fiscal policy hinders Amazon Rainforest conservation (commentary)

João Gabriel de Araujo Oliveira 15 Jul 2026

Rising seas, garbage and heat threaten Brazil’s migratory shorebirds 

Sibélia Zanon 14 Jul 2026

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