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Honduras aims to save vital wildlife corridor from deforestation

Mongabay.com 13 Nov 2018

Merger of Brazil’s agriculture and environment ministries in limbo

Jenny Gonzales 12 Nov 2018

Latam Eco Review: Hungry manatees and grand theft tortoise

Mongabay.com 9 Nov 2018

China increasingly involved in Brazil’s ambitious Amazon rail network

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Nov 2018

Troika of trouble for Bolivia’s Cordillera de Sama Reserve

Mongabay Latam 8 Nov 2018

Cerrado farm community fights for life against dam and eucalyptus growers

Anna Sophie Gross 7 Nov 2018

Parrotfish, critical to reef health, now protected under Mexican law

John Cannon 7 Nov 2018

Deforestation-linked Brazilian beef still flowing into international markets: report

Claire Asher 6 Nov 2018

Latam Eco Review: Killing jaguars for arthritis creams and wine

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2018

Colombia: Dying of thirst, Wayuu blame mine, dam, drought for water woes

Lucy Sherriff 1 Nov 2018
Satellite image from Google Earth: Tanguro, Brazil -12.262600, -52.733553

Deforestation continues upward trend in the Brazilian Amazon

Mongabay.com 31 Oct 2018

Chainsaw Massacre: Protected areas in danger in Brazil’s state of Rondônia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside and Paulo Vilela Cruz 31 Oct 2018

In the Peruvian Amazon, the prized shihuahuaco tree faces a grim future

Leslie Moreno Custodio (Ojo Público) 31 Oct 2018

Chile mine and port project nears approval despite scientific opposition

Michelle Carrere 31 Oct 2018

The Brazilian government’s land war against rebel slave descendants

Anna Sophie Gross 29 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Wandering hippos, condor central, and the macaw trade

Mongabay.com 26 Oct 2018

Peru seizes plane with 30kg of cocaine in Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Vanessa Romo 25 Oct 2018

Violence spikes during Brazil elections, rural minorities fear worse

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 24 Oct 2018

Citizen Ape: The fight for personhood for humans’ closest relatives

Giovanni Ortolani 24 Oct 2018

Amazon and climate science threatened if Bolsonaro elected Brazil’s president (commentary)

17 Latin American scientists 23 Oct 2018

Grainrail: ‘2nd revolution in Brazilian agribusiness’ and Amazon threat

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 22 Oct 2018

Environmental delegation blocked from entering Bolivian national park

Miriam Telma Jemio 22 Oct 2018

Jair Bolsonaro: looming threat to the Amazon and global climate?

Jenny Gonzales 18 Oct 2018

Fate of the Amazon is on the ballot in Brazil’s presidential election (commentary)

Aline C. Soterroni; Fernando M. Ramos; Michael Obersteiner; and Stephen Polasky 17 Oct 2018
Aloisio Sampaio, a trade unionist known as Alenquer, the leader of the KM Mil landless peasant occupation. He was murdered on 11 October. Image by Thais Borges.

Landless movement leader assassinated in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Millennial trees and Pacific coral larvae

Mongabay.com 12 Oct 2018

Amazonia and the setbacks of Brazil’s political moment (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 12 Oct 2018

Fire fundamentally alters carbon dynamics in the Amazon

John Cannon 12 Oct 2018

In a Colombian sanctuary, once-trafficked birds fly again

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 11 Oct 2018

Brazil scraps 11 new Amazon protected areas covering 2,316 square miles

Sue Branford 8 Oct 2018

8,100-square-mile indigenous reserve recognized in Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 5 Oct 2018

Latam Eco Review: Kissable sharks and spectacled bears

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2018

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