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Latam Eco Review: Pumas hate disco and Ecuador’s newly described glass frog

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2019
A juvenile Brazilian tapir (Tapirus terrestris) in the Pantanal. Tapirs have been found to disperse seeds in disturbed Amazon forests. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tapirs could be key in helping degraded rainforests bounce back

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2019

Chilean law pits indigenous people against salmon industry

Michelle Carrere 20 Mar 2019

Bolsonaro on the move: International meetings push agribusiness agenda

Jenny Gonzales 20 Mar 2019

Brazil’s key deforestation drivers: Pasture, cropland, land speculation

Alicia Prager 19 Mar 2019
Drone view of Chiquitano forest recently deforested on the edge of the Bolivian Amazon for soy production. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Investors warn soy giants of backlash over deforestation in South America

James Fair 18 Mar 2019

Latam Eco Review: Bolivia’s Batman and Peru’s birdy cave drawings

Mongabay.com 16 Mar 2019

Brazil to open indigenous reserves to mining without indigenous consent

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 14 Mar 2019
Julio Cusurichi. Image courtesy of FENAMAD.

Defending the Amazon’s uncontacted peoples: Q&A with Julio Cusurichi

Dan Collyns 13 Mar 2019

Brazil to build long-resisted Amazon transmission line on indigenous land

Jan Rocha 13 Mar 2019

Latam Eco Review: Scandal rocks famed Easter Island park and a freshwater crab discovery

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2019

Wildlife traffickers thrive on Guatemala’s murky border with Belize

Rodrigo Soberanes 8 Mar 2019
Camera trap image showing a jaguar on a road at San Miguelito. Courtesy of Duston Larsen.

Can jaguar tourism save Bolivia’s fast dwindling forests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Mar 2019

Saving the Cerrado: Six commodities traders to disclose supply chain data

Alicia Prager 7 Mar 2019

The hidden costs of hydro: We need to reconsider world’s dam plans

Liz Kimbrough 5 Mar 2019

Indigenous group sues Ecuador for earmarking its land for oil drilling

Kimberley Brown 5 Mar 2019
A black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra), a resident of Cerro Amay photographed in Belize. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Guatemala: Proposed new park on indigenous land treads fine ethical line

Maxwell Radwin 4 Mar 2019

Brazil’s New Forest Code puts vast areas of protected Amazon forest at risk

Claire Asher 4 Mar 2019
The spider Pamphobeteus sp. (Theraphosidae) and Chiasmocleis royi. Photo by Emanuele Biggi.

Video: scientists capture giant spider eating an opossum

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2019

Latam Eco Review: Mining bust in Peru, mining boom in Chile

Mongabay.com 1 Mar 2019

Latam Eco Review: Icon status for jaguars and fears over lithium mining

Mongabay.com 22 Feb 2019

Brazil wants to legalize agribusiness leasing of indigenous lands

Jenny Gonzales 21 Feb 2019

Cerrado farmer shot amid escalating conflict with agribusiness

Flávia Milhorance 21 Feb 2019

Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting

Jan Rocha 20 Feb 2019

Brazil sees growing wave of anti-indigenous threats, reserve invasions

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Feb 2019
Student government president Gaymon Edwards leads a meeting of his fellow students. Their current requests from the school administration include sprinklers for the kitchen garden, new locks for the classrooms, and full electricity in the dorms. Image by Carinya Sharples for Mongabay.

Guyana: The school where indigenous youth learn about their land

Carinya Sharples 15 Feb 2019

10 reasons U.S. must hold Peru to trade deal and protect Amazon (commentary)

David Hill 15 Feb 2019

Latam Eco Review: Twilight for Darwin’s foxes, nightlife for jaguarundis

Mongabay.com 15 Feb 2019

Invaded Uru-eu-wau-wau indigenous reserve awaits relief by Brazil’s new government

Gustavo Faleiros 14 Feb 2019

Nicaragua crisis takes an environmental toll with plunder of turtle eggs

Michelle Carrere 13 Feb 2019

Amazon at risk: Brazil plans rapid road and rail infrastructure expansion

Sue Branford 12 Feb 2019
Toribio Cabrera, a potato farmer in Concepción Chiquirichapa, Guatemala. Like most of his coleagues, Cabrera attributes the success of the local potato harvest to the use of leaf litter from the forest as a fertilizer. Image by Jorge Rodríguez for Mongabay.

The secret to a town’s perfect potatoes? Its well-preserved forest.

Jorge Rodríguez 11 Feb 2019

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