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Venezuela’s hungry hunt wildlife, zoo animals, as economic crisis grows

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 21 May 2018

Brazil has the tools to end Amazon deforestation now: report

Giovanni Ortolani 18 May 2018

Latam Eco review: Coca threatens world’s best organic coffees

Mongabay.com 18 May 2018

Brazilian Amazon oil palm deforestation under control, for now

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 17 May 2018

Study links malaria to deforestation in the Amazon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 15 May 2018

Attack of the turtles: ruralists assault environmental laws, Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 May 2018

Sylvia Earle on why we must act now to save the oceans

Mike Gaworecki 15 May 2018

Damming the Amazon unfettered after Brazilian purge (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 14 May 2018

Longest recorded whale shark migration eclipses 20,000 kilometers

Mongabay.com 14 May 2018

Scientists find ‘ground zero’ of deadly frog pandemic

Morgan Erickson-Davis 11 May 2018

Latam Eco Review: Colombia’s last nomadic tribe faces extinction

Mongabay.com 11 May 2018

Debate ensues over British supermarket chain’s decision to ban palm oil

Loren Bell 10 May 2018

A forgotten people: traditional Amazon hamlet fights for its territory

Natalia Guerrero, Mauricio Torres 9 May 2018

Pleistocene climates help scientists pick out targets for conservation in Brazil’s forests

Mongabay.com 8 May 2018

Four regions in Peru exposed to mercury contamination

Yvette Sierra Praeli 8 May 2018

Colombia’s supreme court orders government to stop Amazon deforestation

Esteban Montaño 7 May 2018

Crisis in Venezuela: Caparo Experimental Station invaded by 200 farmers

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 7 May 2018

Latam Eco review: An Andean condor chooses her own protected area in Ecuador

Mongabay.com 4 May 2018
Flowers in Anchieta in Brazil. Photo by Ignacio Amigo/Mongabay.

In Brazil, an island laboratory for Atlantic Forest restoration

Ignacio Amigo 3 May 2018

Religious leaders mobilize to protect indigenous people and forests

Liz Kimbrough 2 May 2018

New film shines light on cattle industry link to Amazon deforestation

Anna Sophie Gross 1 May 2018

More than 800 totoaba swim bladders confiscated by Mexican authorities in smuggling busts

John Cannon 1 May 2018

3,000 indigenous people gather in Brasilia to protest ruralist agenda

Sue Branford 30 Apr 2018
Héctor Choc Cuz, right, poses with his brother. Choc Cuz, 18, was beaten to death on the edge of El Estor and died on March 31, 2018. Image courtesy of Angélica Choc.

Nephew of Maya land and rights activist beaten to death in Guatemala

Heather Gies 27 Apr 2018

Latam Eco Review: Respected ancestral healer murdered in Peru

Mongabay.com 27 Apr 2018

Photos: Meet the 2018 ‘Green Oscars’ winners

Mongabay.com 27 Apr 2018
The traditional Caiçara canoe is in the process of becoming part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Brazilian culture. But building the canoes is becoming increasingly difficult due to bureaucratic setbacks to obtain the wood. Courtesty personal collection of Mario Gato and Ana Carolina Barbosa.

For the Caiçaras, environmental laws in Brazil at odds with tradition

Ignacio Amigo 25 Apr 2018

Venezuelan gold strike prompts invasion by 3,000 miners, military raid

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 25 Apr 2018

Conservation Effectiveness series sparks action, dialogue

Shreya Dasgupta, Zuzana Burivalova 23 Apr 2018

New short film captures rare spider monkey feeding behavior (commentary)

Eilidh Munro 23 Apr 2018

Meet the winners of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2018
After cutting down hundreds of trees, workers start fires to more easily clean the land and prepare it to grow crops. Photo by Jorge Suárez.

Open destruction in the Colombian Amazon after FARC’s exit

Esteban Montaño, Semana Sostenible 20 Apr 2018

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