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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 and Maurício Torres 6 Nov 2017

Recent report: Totoaba trafficking a conservation and security problem

John Cannon 6 Nov 2017
Dani man in Indonesian papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Does community-based forest management work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Nov 2017

Catastrophic fires sweep through iconic Brazilian national park

Anna Sophie Gross 2 Nov 2017

Mining activity causing nearly 10 percent of Amazon deforestation

Zoe Sullivan 2 Nov 2017

Environmental policy under the Kuczynski Administration: Steps forward for conservation efforts in Peru (commentary)

Haley Wiebel | Enrique Ortiz 2 Nov 2017

Will the bird that dodged a bullet pay the price of peace?

Mike Shanahan 2 Nov 2017

Interoceanic Highway incites deforestation in Peru, threatens more to come

Bart Crezee 1 Nov 2017

Carbon sequestration role of savanna soils key to climate goals

Justin Catanoso 1 Nov 2017

Temer offers amnesty, erasing up to $2.1 billion in environmental crime fines

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 31 Oct 2017

Palm oil mounts ‘new offensive’ in Colombia while workers decry labor conditions

Bram Ebus 27 Oct 2017

Brazilian police nab Amazon timber thieves who faked forest credits

Jenny Gonzales 27 Oct 2017

First vaquita ‘rescued’ in bid to save the porpoise from extinction

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2017

Temer guts Brazil’s slavery law, to the applause of elite ruralists

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Oct 2017

Could fungi provide an alternative to palm oil?

Kimberley Brown 19 Oct 2017

Deforestation drops 16% in the Brazilian Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Oct 2017

Amazonian manatee migration at risk from disruption by proposed dams

Claire Salisbury 19 Oct 2017

One man’s quest to save the world’s wildest places: Hansjörg Wyss

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Oct 2017

Munduruku standoff against Amazon dam builders potentially explosive

Sue Branford with Fernanda Moreira and Maurício Torres 17 Oct 2017

Mexico takes ‘unprecedented’ action to save vaquita

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2017

‘Then they shot me’: Land conflict and murder in Ucayali, Peru

Yvette Sierra Praeli 12 Oct 2017
Manolo Miranda, an indigenous leader recently acquitted of charges in a suit brought by the Barro Blanco dam's construction company, at a protest over the dam in August, 2016. Photo by Camilo Mejia Geraldo for Mongabay.

Indigenous group scores legal victory as dam floods their lands

Camilo Mejia Giraldo 12 Oct 2017

Record Amazon fires stun scientists; sign of sick, degraded forests

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 11 Oct 2017

Birdwatching poised to take flight in Colombia, study reveals

John Cannon 10 Oct 2017

Colombia, an example to world, balances conservation and development

Justin Catanoso 9 Oct 2017

Booming legal Amazon wildlife trade documented in new report

Claire Salisbury 6 Oct 2017

Amazon community on Tapajós River invaded by wildcat miners

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres, with additional reporting by Ailen Vega 2 Oct 2017

Brazil: a world champion in political and environmental devastation (commentary)

Giem Guimaraes 29 Sep 2017

New research suggests tropical forests are now a net source of carbon emissions

Mike Gaworecki 28 Sep 2017

Temer walks back plan to open Denmark-sized area of Amazon to mining

Jenny Gonzales 27 Sep 2017

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