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Campesinos bring life back to a deforestation hotspot in the Colombian Amazon

In a village divided, farmers stall massive copper mine in Colombian Andes

New bill to expand farmlands in the Amazon may derail Brazil’s green efforts

Sustainability in the extractive industries is a paradox

Yucatán Peninsula’s hidden underground life tracks changes at the surface

Honduran environmental defenders hit hard by human rights crisis, report says

Ecuador’s Los Lobos narcotrafficking gang muscles in on illegal gold mining

A fishing community celebrates its right to manage a Brazilian state park

Mongabay investigation is turned into art for World Press Freedom Day event

What’s at stake for the environment in Mexico’s upcoming election?

Governments are ramping up actions to fight environmental crime across the Amazon, but is it working? (commentary)

In Amazon’s tri-border Javari region, teens fall prey to drug gangs’ lure

In Brazil’s Cerrado, aquifers are losing more water than they can replace

Collective effort monitors Amazon wildlife in heavily logged Brazil state

Fishers decry ‘underhanded’ new initiative to protect Mexico’s vaquita

Green credentials of electric vehicles come under fire

Chile to protect some salt flats, but selection lacks data, scientists say

Global markets and their effects on resource exploitation in the Pan Amazon

Top brands buy Amazon carbon credits from suspected timber laundering scam

Organized crime puts unprecedented pressure on Guatemala’s largest rainforest

Amplifying Indigenous voices at the global level: Interview with Dario Mejía Montalvo

Photos confirm narcotraffickers operating in Peru’s Kakataibo Indigenous Reserve

Bird populations are mysteriously declining at an Amazon park in Ecuador & beyond

Undercover in a shark fin trafficking ring: Interview with wildlife crime fighter Andrea Crosta

Tackling climate change in one of Colombia’s largest wetlands

As miner quells protests in Ecuador, Canadian firms’ rights record faces scrutiny

Extractive industries look at degraded land to avoid further deforestation in the Pan Amazon

An ancient Indigenous lagoon system brings water back to a dry town in Ecuador

Venezuela’s shrimp farms push for sustainability against hardship and oil spills

Environmental defenders paid the price during Panama’s historic mining protests – report

Shade-grown coffee benefits birds, forests & people in Venezuela

Pemex waste contaminates Mexican communities while talking ‘sustainability’

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