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Two male proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo.

Indonesian capital project finally gets guidelines to avoid harm to biodiversity

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2024
In the heart of the Cardamom Mountains, new hydropower dams threaten both protected forest and REDD+ projects. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Protected areas bear the brunt as forest loss continues across Cambodia

Gerald Flynn 17 Apr 2024
Mercury being used to agglomerate gold.

Brazil’s illegal gold trade takes a hammering, but persists underground

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Apr 2024

Brazil’s cattle industry could suffer major losses without climate policies, report says

Maxwell Radwin 10 Apr 2024

Mining in the Pan Amazon in pursuit of the world’s most precious metal

Timothy J. Killeen 4 Apr 2024
Satellite image of wildfires in Quebec, Canada, in June, 2023.

Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2024
Small-scale illegal gold mining is widespread throughout much of the Peruvian Amazon, but especially in Madre de Dios, causing enormous harm to the environment and human population in what's recognized as a biodiversity hotspot.

Amazon prosecutors get sharper impact tool to charge illegal gold dealers

Justin Catanoso 27 Mar 2024

Deforestation from soy shows no sign of stopping in Cerrado, report says

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2024
Exploratory oil drilling in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Colin Dunlop.

Mineral commodities: the wealth that generates most impacts in the Pan Amazon | Chapter 5 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Mar 2024
Brazilian environmental specialists have been on strike since early January, demanding better salaries, a risk bonus and a new public tender for the category.

Lula’s deforestation goals threatened by frustrated environmental agents

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Mar 2024

Fanned by El Niño, megafires in Brazil threaten Amazon’s preserved areas

André Schröder 18 Mar 2024

Chocó land deal shows flaws in Ecuador’s forestry incentive program

Maxwell Radwin 18 Mar 2024

Palm oil deforestation persists in Indonesia’s Leuser amid new mills, plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Mar 2024

Reforestation and restoration: Two ways to make the Pan Amazon greener

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Mar 2024

Reconciling conservation agriculture and agroforestry for sustainability

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Mar 2024

Ten years since anti-deforestation pledge, corporate world still not doing enough

Maxwell Radwin 6 Mar 2024

Land irrigation as an obstacle to agricultural intensification in Mato Grosso

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Mar 2024

What is most convenient in land distribution?

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Mar 2024

Major meatpacker JBS misled the public about sustainability efforts, NY lawsuit claims

Maxwell Radwin 1 Mar 2024
The Bolivian Amazon has been affected by illegal mining and oil incursion.

In the Amazon, what happens to undesignated public lands?

Timothy J. Killeen 29 Feb 2024

Major meatpackers are unlawfully deforesting Brazil’s Cerrado, report says

Maxwell Radwin 29 Feb 2024

Study points to which Amazon regions could reach tipping point & dry up

Fernanda Wenzel 29 Feb 2024
A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,

Ecuador, Colombia and the Guiana Shield join the planning of sustainable land use

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Feb 2024

Megafires are spreading in the Amazon — and they are here to stay

Sibélia Zanon, Luís Patriani 22 Feb 2024

Low implementation of land use maps in Andean countries affects conservation outcomes and agricultural productivity

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Feb 2024

Land use planning helps advance conservation in Brazil

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Feb 2024
A torrent of mining waste killed nearly 300 people when a tailings dam at Vale’s mine in Brumadinho collapsed in 2019.

Scientists now know how the Brumadinho dam disaster happened, and the lessons to learn

Sarah Sax 21 Feb 2024
ecuador infrastructure

Road project promising access to Indigenous Waorani is ushering in deforestation

Aimee Gabay 19 Feb 2024
Generated image showing a road through a deforested landscape.

Brazil’s BR-319 highway: The danger reaches a critical moment (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 17 Feb 2024

The creation of settlements in the Ecuadorian Amazon | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Feb 2024
Deforestation for oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2016. Photo courtesy of Linus.

Palm oil deforestation makes comeback in Indonesia after decade-long slump

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024

Report shows Peru failed to stop Amazon deforestation for palm oil and cacao

Dimitri Selibas 8 Feb 2024

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