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AI and public data identify fishing behavior to protect hungry seabirds

Marianne Messina 22 Feb 2019

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

Mongabay.com 22 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

Peru: Report reveals high rates of illegality in timber extraction

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 Feb 2019

Latam Eco Review: ‘Andean ostrich’ gets some bling and Patagonia pumas protected

Mongabay.com 8 Feb 2019

Latam Eco Review: Seeing red over pink dolphins and flamingos

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2019

Latam Eco Review: Some whales may benefit from Japan’s whaling commission exit

Mongabay.com 26 Jan 2019

Of concrete and corruption: Resistance kills Andes Amazon dams

Saul Elbein 24 Jan 2019

Latam Eco Review: Pirate fishers in the Caribbean and many new reserves created

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2019
Capybaras, Colombia. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay

Latam Eco Review: Resistance, hope and camera traps

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2019

Top camera trapping stories of 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 31 Dec 2018
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

Cocaine blamed for rising deforestation in Peru’s Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Vanessa Romo 30 Dec 2018
José León/Diario Ímpetu

Land trafficking in Peru: officials arrested for falsifying documents

Yvette Sierra Praeli 21 Dec 2018

Illegal mining in the Amazon ‘not comparable to any other period of its history’

Kimberley Brown 20 Dec 2018

Latam Eco Review: Jaguar protection plan signed by 14 Latin countries

Mongabay.com 15 Dec 2018

COP24: Nations complicit in ignoring bioenergy climate bomb, experts say

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2018

Latam Eco Review: Whale attacks, palm oil woes, and hope for vaquitas

Mongabay.com 7 Dec 2018

Peru’s Brazil nut harvesters learn to monitor forests with drones

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Dec 2018

Extinction by omission: Peru’s disappearing ancient shihuahuaco trees

Vanessa Romo 28 Nov 2018
The Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve is home to wildlife like jaguar. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler.

Latam Eco Review: Jail time for jaguar traffickers

Mongabay.com 23 Nov 2018

Climate change may turn Amazon peatlands from carbon sinks to sources

Morgan Erickson-Davis 22 Nov 2018

Peru shares its fisheries surveillance data with the world

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Nov 2018
Kelp. Image courtesy of NOAA.

Latam Eco Review: Rampant roadkill and shrinking seaweed stocks

Mongabay.com 16 Nov 2018

The last trees of the Amazon

Nelly Luna Amancio 12 Nov 2018

Novel research method reveals small-scale gold mining’s impact on Peruvian Amazon

Mike Gaworecki 9 Nov 2018
A spectacled bear in the rehabilitation and reintroduction program at Chaparrí. Photo by Matthew Weaver.

Peru cracks down after environmental defenders’ murders

Matthew Weaver, Rajmonda Rexhi 9 Nov 2018

Latam Eco Review: Hungry manatees and grand theft tortoise

Mongabay.com 9 Nov 2018

Troika of trouble for Bolivia’s Cordillera de Sama Reserve

Mongabay Latam 8 Nov 2018

Latam Eco Review: Killing jaguars for arthritis creams and wine

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2018
Large-bodied animals like this knobbed hornbill play an important role in forest ecosystems. Studies show that the loss of seed dispersers can have long-term effects on the carbon storage of forests. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Forest report points to opportunity for recovery

Jennifer Rigby 31 Oct 2018

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