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How Colombia became Latin America’s palm oil powerhouse

Taran Volckhausen 31 May 2018

Raid fails to stop gold mining, death threats on Amazon’s Tropas River

Rosamaria Loures, Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 31 May 2018

Bolivia’s Madidi National Park home to world’s largest array of land life, survey finds

Mongabay.com 30 May 2018

Dutch support soy transport mega-project, posing major risk to Amazon

Karlijn Kuijpers 29 May 2018

Latam Eco Review: Peru’s first environmental court

Mongabay.com 25 May 2018

Illegal loggers ‘cook the books’ to harvest Amazon’s most valuable tree

Jenny Gonzales 24 May 2018

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, Mauricio 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, Mauricio 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

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