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An invite to the tapir toilet buffet (cartoon)

Rohan Chakravarty 15 Oct 2025
Yesid Achicue, an Indigenous mountain guide from the Cauca region in Colombia. Image courtesy of Yesid Achicue.

As the Andes’ glaciers melt, our values can help: Voices from the land (commentary)

Yesid Achicue 14 Oct 2025
In February, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva praised planned investments by Vale during a public event in Pará state, urging the company to ensure dam safety. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/Presidência da República.

Copper rush pushes Vale to ramp up mining near Amazonian protected areas

André Schröder 14 Oct 2025

Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study

Mark Hillsdon 14 Oct 2025

Peru considers stripping protections for Indigenous people and their territories

Maxwell Radwin 13 Oct 2025

IUCN downgrades guiña threat status, prompting conservation warning

Sean Mowbray 10 Oct 2025
Timber is sorted for transport in Uruará in the state of Pará.

Amazon countries use variety of legal tools to fight environmental crime

Timothy J. Killeen 10 Oct 2025
Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

MPs across Latin America unite to stop fossil fuels in the Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 9 Oct 2025

Research aims to link Hansen’s disease & illegal armadillo hunting in Brazil

Adele Santelli 9 Oct 2025

In Panama, poison dart frog move brings hope amid amphibians’ fight with fungus

Sam Meadows 8 Oct 2025
Cassandra Garduño harvests kale in her chinampa.

Saving Mexico City’s ancient floating farms

Lucia Torres, Associated Press 8 Oct 2025
Banner image: Houses of Shawi community residents on the banks of the Paranapura River in Peru.

New road in Peruvian Amazon sparks fear of invasion among Indigenous Shawi

Geraldine Santos 8 Oct 2025
Cassandra Garduño in a wooden boat.

Women in Mexico step up to protect the island farms traditionally inherited by men

Teresa de Miguel, Associated Press 8 Oct 2025
Miners pan for gold at a gold mine in El Callao, Bolivar state, Venezuela, Friday, April 28, 2023. Miners pan for hours in ponds where standing water fosters mosquitos that transmit diseases, such as malaria and dengue fever. Photo by: AP Photo/Matias Delacroix.

Amid Venezuela’s illegal gold heist are armed groups, gangs & elites, report says

Aimee Gabay 2 Oct 2025
After a chinchorro fishing haul, some fish considered worthless are left behind and end up rotting on the sand.

Illegal fishing threatens unique marine ecosystem in Peru

Ramiro Escobar 1 Oct 2025
A young Rostain takes a break along a river in French Guiana, where he started his archaeological career in the late 1980s.

Indigenous myths reveal Amazon’s past truths: Interview with Stéphen Rostain

Peter Speetjens 1 Oct 2025

From South America to Asia, seahorses vanish into trafficking pipeline

Ana Cristina Alvarado 30 Sep 2025
Indigenous organizations from the Amazon basin — representing more than 511 peoples — met in Brasilia on June 2 to discuss solutions they are implementing in their territories to address the global climate crisis. Image courtesy of Passu Creativa.

Seven Indigenous paths to protect the Amazon: Voices from the land (commentary)

Oswaldo Muca Castizo, Patricia Suárez, Oriana Cortés Muñoz, Emil Sirén Gualinga 29 Sep 2025
Lina Ruiz and Lita Rojas outside of the court in Ucayali after hearing the first ruling. Image by Hugo Alejos.

Report finds 226 Indigenous land defenders in Peru at risk of violence

Yvette Sierra Praeli 29 Sep 2025
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Environment Minister Marina Silva attend the launch of a program to reduce deforestation and forest fires in the Amazon, in April 2024.

New deal pushes Amazon’s controversial ‘tipping point road’ ahead

Rafael Spuldar 29 Sep 2025
Banner image: Arturo Gómez-Pompa. Courtesy of Universidad

Arturo Gómez-Pompa, biologist who revealed the human history in “virgin” forests, has died, aged 90

Rhett Ayers Butler 26 Sep 2025
The second instance court sentencing in the Saweto case was held August 25 and lasted approximately eight hours. Image by Geraldine Santos.

Peru court upholds 28 years in prison for loggers in Indigenous murders

Geraldine Santos 26 Sep 2025

The fate of flying rivers could decide Amazon ‘tipping point,’ report says

Maxwell Radwin 26 Sep 2025
President Lula calls on world leaders to support the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) at upcoming COP30 in Belém, Brazil, to advance climate action and conserve tropical forests.

Brazil leads push for novel forest finance mechanism ahead of COP30 summit

Justin Catanoso 26 Sep 2025

How we probed a maze of websites to tally Brazilian government shark meat orders

Philip Jacobson, Kuang Keng Kuek Ser 26 Sep 2025
BR-364 paved the way for the widespread conversion of Amazon Rainforest in Rondônia into land for agriculture and cattle ranching. Image courtesy of Cleber Carvalho/Ministério dos Transportes.

Brazil’s first private Amazon road paves new trade route to China

André Schröder 25 Sep 2025
Monitors from the Ticuna community of San Francisco de Yahuma, in Loreto, Peru. They use drones to monitor and protect their forests. Image courtesy of Joseph Zegarra/Rainforest Foundation US.

Indigenous women in Peru use technology to protect Amazon forests

Astrid Arellano 24 Sep 2025
Illustration by Sara Arredondo/Baudó Agencia Pública.

Indigenous fishers lead science-backed conservation of Colombia’s wetlands

Camilo Alzate 24 Sep 2025
Marfrig’s bonds funded beef from illegally deforested areas in Brazil

Marfrig’s bonds funded beef from illegally deforested areas in Brazil

Bruna Bronoski, O Joio e o Trigo 23 Sep 2025
Rainforest in the Western Amazon. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler

Setting the record straight on Jurisdictional REDD+: The case of Brazil

Luiza Muccillo, Daniel Nepstad, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta, Monica de los Rios, Thuanny Vieira 21 Sep 2025

The mire of Brazil’s BR-319 highway: Deforestation, development, and the banality of evil (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 19 Sep 2025
Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo with elders and community leaders.

Protecting Indigenous Amazon lands may also protect public health, study says

Constance Malleret 19 Sep 2025

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