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Illegal gold mining spreads to protected Peruvian reserve

Apoorva Joshi 7 Jan 2016

Peru to protect world’s largest-known population of giant Manta Rays

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Jan 2016

What’s ahead for rainforests in 2016? 10 things to watch

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2016

Another environmental activist is killed in Peru over his opposition to a major dam project

Ruxandra Guidi 30 Dec 2015

Cocaine-linked airstrip appears in Peruvian national park

Ethan Harfenist 29 Dec 2015

The year in rainforests: 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2015
Critically endangered Sumatran Rhino

Mongabay’s 10 most popular conservation news stories in 2015

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Dec 2015
Chevron's Duri oil field in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

How does the global commodity collapse impact forest conservation?

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Dec 2015

Bellavista no more: Peru’s infamous wildlife market reduced to rubble

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 17 Dec 2015

The most recent seizure shows the scale and extent of illegal timber trafficking in Peru

Ruxandra Guidi 14 Dec 2015

200,000 of Peru’s primates trafficked for pet trade or bushmeat yearly

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 11 Dec 2015

Government forestry office in Peru is attacked after largest illegal wood seizure in the country

Ruxandra Guidi 8 Dec 2015

Illegal gold miners in Madre de Dios, Peru, paralyze the region with protests

Ruxandra Guidi 4 Dec 2015

Grassroots leader’s murder in Peru is a signal to opponents of mining, son says

Barbara Fraser 27 Nov 2015

Deforestation and death threats: activist and family threatened in Peru

John Cannon 24 Nov 2015

Camera traps suggest wild animals anticipated major earthquake weeks before it struck

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Nov 2015

Poaching upsurge threatens South America’s iconic vicuña

Rachel Nuwer 24 Nov 2015

Researchers in Peru capture some of the Amazon’s rarest and most elusive wildlife on video

Mike Gaworecki 23 Nov 2015

Environmentalist gunned down by illegal miners in Peru

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Nov 2015

New fund lands $4M to protect the Amazon

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2015

‘A critical gift’: Peru rejoices as a new national park is born

Apoorva Joshi, Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Nov 2015
Sierra del Divisor's famed cone. Photo by Diego Pérez / El Taller.pe

Peru creates ‘Yellowstone of the Amazon’: 3.3M acre reserve home to uncontacted tribes, endangered wildlife

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Nov 2015

Private conservation lands under threat in Peruvian Amazon

Barbara Fraser 30 Oct 2015

New study re-assesses conservation status of Peruvian amphibians

Sean Mowbray 22 Oct 2015

The wild side of Peru gets an imaging makeover

Neelam Pereira 22 Oct 2015

Three Amazon nations, three approaches to reducing deforestation

Julian Smith 22 Oct 2015

After years of struggle and bloodshed, Peruvian community wins back its land

Apoorva Joshi 9 Oct 2015
Map of historic deforestation in the Amazon rainforest since 1970

Deforestation declines in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Oct 2015

Test-driving an origami microscope

Caleb O'Brien 5 Oct 2015

The Manu road in Peru: separate paths of development and conservation

Guest Commentary 5 Oct 2015

Road creeps into Peru’s Sierra del Divisor as it awaits national park designation

John Cannon 2 Oct 2015

Policing domestic wildlife trafficking in Peru

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 30 Sep 2015

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