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A herd of capybara, the world’s largest living rodents, go for a swim in Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Mammal diversity may increase carbon storage in rainforests

Jennifer Leman 5 Dec 2017

Ferrogrão grain railway threatens Amazon indigenous groups, forest

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 4 Dec 2017
2. A pink river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) leaps from the Samiria River in northeastern Peru. These dolphins, along with scores of fish and crocodilians, suffered from an intense drought in 2010, but most recovered during extreme floods between 2011 and 2015. Photo courtesy of Richard Bodmer and FundAmazonia.

Extreme seasonal changes in Amazon river levels threaten forest conservation by indigenous people

Jeremy Rehm 4 Dec 2017

‘They want to occupy and take our land’: Land conflicts increase in Brazil

Morgan Erickson-Davis 1 Dec 2017

Tropical deforestation is getting bigger, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 29 Nov 2017

Fundão dam criminal case moves ahead against 21 mining executives

Zoe Sullivan 29 Nov 2017

Peru: Illegal mining devastates forests in Amazonas Region

Vanessa Romo 28 Nov 2017
The Maasai people in Kenya pass down environmental knowledge through storytelling. Photo courtesy of Joan de la Malla.

Storytelling empowers indigenous people to conserve their environments

Nicoletta Lanese 27 Nov 2017

Peru: the man who overcomes fear to defend the forest

Jack Lo Lau 27 Nov 2017

Brilliant blue tarantula among potentially new species discovered in Guyana

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2017

Culture keeps cattle ranching going in the Brazilian Amazon

John Cannon 23 Nov 2017

Water sources under threat from mining in Ecuador’s mountains

Marlon Puertas 22 Nov 2017

Damming or damning the Amazon: Assessing Ecuador / China cooperation

Max Nathanson 22 Nov 2017

Peru: The river that will not flow

Jack Lo Lau 22 Nov 2017
A turtle at Shell Beach in Region 1 of Guyana. Photo courtesy of Guyana Marine Conservation Society.

Guyana seeks offshore oil wealth in a green economy

Carinya Sharples 21 Nov 2017

Experience or evidence: How do big conservation NGOs make decisions?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2017

An early warning system for locating forest loss

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 16 Nov 2017
Arley Estupiñan walks towards his house at night. Photo by Ana Cristina Vallejo with permission.

The uncertain future of Bogotá’s shantytowns

Maximo Anderson 16 Nov 2017

A tranquilizer shortage is holding back rhino management plans in India

Moushumi Basu 16 Nov 2017

$2 billion investment in forest restoration announced at COP23

Mike Gaworecki 15 Nov 2017

Videos detail corruption in massive illegal Peruvian timber case

Genevieve Belmaker 14 Nov 2017

VaquitaCPR ends capture program in Gulf of California after vaquita dies in captivity

Mike Gaworecki 13 Nov 2017

From carbon sink to source: Brazil puts Amazon, Paris goals at risk

Claire Salisbury 9 Nov 2017

Global climate change increasing risk of crop yield losses and food insecurity in the tropical Andes

Justin Catanoso 8 Nov 2017
The Amazon rainforest along southeastern Peru's Tambopata River, seen from above.

Crowdsourcing the forest for the trees

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 7 Nov 2017

As negotiators meet in Bonn, Brazil’s carbon emissions rise

Jenny Gonzales 7 Nov 2017

Breeding-age female vaquita dies after being taken into captivity

Mike Gaworecki 6 Nov 2017

Indigenous lands at risk, as Amazon sellout by Brazil’s Temer continues (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 6 Nov 2017

Indigenous forests could be a key to averting climate catastrophe

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 6 Nov 2017

Recent report: Totoaba trafficking a conservation and security problem

John Cannon 6 Nov 2017

Betting on agroforestry in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest

Ignacio Amigo 3 Nov 2017
An orchid. Photo by Džoko Stach/Pixabay.

The lure of wild orchids persists in Colombia

Maximo Anderson 2 Nov 2017

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