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Massive erosion likely due to hydropower dam causes oil spill on Ecuador’s Coca River

Antonio José Paz Cardona 6 May 2020
Matsés woman with traditional facial tattoos, piercings, and face paint. Photo: Alicia Fox

Painstaking mapping initiative helps indigenous Peruvians defend their land

Yvette Sierra Praeli 5 May 2020
Blackwater lake, rainforest, and the whitewater Zacambu River in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Bird’s eye view: Drone photos of the Amazon rainforest (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Apr 2020

South American indigenous peoples close territories in response to COVID-19

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 Apr 2020

Hanging with Romi: Get to know our camera trap expert and host of Candid Animal Cam

Erik Hoffner 8 Apr 2020

A third of Peru’s La Pampa forest cleared for illegal mining ponds, study finds

Yvette Sierra Praeli 2 Apr 2020

Peru uncovers organized crime network laundering illegally mined gold

Yvette Sierra Praeli 23 Mar 2020

Wealth fund divests from Peruvian firm after indigenous group complaint

Lauren Crothers 20 Mar 2020

Qualified success: What’s next for Peru’s Operation Mercury?

John Cannon 19 Mar 2020

Smaller fragments of forest at risk of greater levels of deforestation, study finds

Lauren Crothers 16 Mar 2020

Peruvian women unite against toxic metals pollution (commentary)

Cecilia Niezen, Gloria Alvitres 12 Mar 2020

Complaint alleges oil company left Peru communities’ environment in ruins

Mongabay.com 12 Mar 2020

Leaders on the cutting edge of conservation recognized on International Women’s Day

Genevieve Belmaker 6 Mar 2020

Map reveals Canadian mining company’s environmental, social conflicts

John Cannon 2 Mar 2020

Pope makes impassioned plea to save the Amazon — will the world listen?

Justin Catanoso 17 Feb 2020
Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Early deforestation numbers for 2019 reveal trends in the Amazon

John Cannon 12 Feb 2020

Carbon emissions from Peruvian gold mining ‘alarming,’ experts say

Ashoka Mukpo 4 Feb 2020

Success of Microsoft’s ‘moonshot’ climate pledge hinges on forest conservation

Justin Catanoso 3 Feb 2020

Dorsal de Nasca: Peru pledges to create a huge new marine reserve

Yvette Sierra Praeli 3 Feb 2020

Bringing rocks to a dynamite fight: Fishers take on blast fishing in Peru

Michelle Carrere 28 Jan 2020

Covering environmental defenders can put journalists in dangerous situations (insider)

Sarah Sax 24 Jan 2020
Experts fear that international markets will close their doors to Peru due to illegal timber. Photo courtesy of the Environmental Research Agency (EIA).

U.S. lumber company found importing high-risk Peruvian timber

Michael Tatarski 23 Jan 2020

Black-market anchovies: Report details Peru’s illegal fish meal industry

Michelle Carrere 21 Jan 2020
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

2019: The year rainforests burned

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2019
Sunrise in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2019. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical forests’ lost decade: the 2010s

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Dec 2019

Mongabay investigation reveals large-scale land invasion in Peruvian Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 12 Dec 2019

COP25: Laura Vargas inspires with power of faith in defense of forests

Justin Catanoso 10 Dec 2019

A celebratory kind of revolution: Peruvian villagers hold a bird festival (commentary)

Brian Landever, Fufkin Vollmayer 9 Dec 2019

Coca farms close in on protected areas, isolated tribes in Peruvian Amazon

Chris Fagan 9 Dec 2019

Amazon’s giant South American river turtle holding its own, but risks abound

Jenny Gonzales 6 Dec 2019

Researchers urge sustainability as palm oil tightens its grip on Latin America

Antonio José Paz Cardona 20 Nov 2019

Ayahuasca tourism an overlooked driver of trade in jaguar body parts, researchers say

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2019

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