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Triunfo do Xingu, a sustainable development reserve in the Brazilian state of Pará, has in recent years become the epicenter of the forest destruction gripping the Amazon Rainforest. Cattle ranching is responsible for much of the destruction, but wildcat mining and land grabbing are fast advancing too. Across the reserve, toppled trees, open-pit mines and charred jungle are a common sight. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

Deforestation ‘out of control’ in reserve in Brazil’s cattle capital

Ana Ionova 11 Jan 2023

Weakening of agrarian reform program increases violence against settlers in Brazilian Amazon

Andrew Johnson 10 Jan 2023

Indonesia’s biofuel push must go beyond palm oil to reduce risk, experts say

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2023
Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with Indigenous people.

From deforestation to restoration: Policy plots path to Amazon recovery

André Schröder 6 Jan 2023
The Enawenê-Nawê Indigenous people.

Series of small dams pose big cumulative risk to Amazon’s fish and people

Sarah Brown 3 Jan 2023
Rainbow over oil palm plantations and forest in Jambi. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

What happened in the world’s rainforests in 2022?

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2022

Brazilian archbishop is threatened for defending Indigenous peoples — even during Mass

Elizabeth Oliveira 28 Dec 2022
A tall red angelim.

Amazon’s tallest tree at risk as deforestation nears

Sarah Brown 28 Dec 2022
Researcher Elielson Pereira da Silva and Quilombola people sit waiting for a canoe.

In Brazil’s Amazon, Quilombolas fight major palm oil firm for access to cemeteries

Karla Mendes 28 Dec 2022
Beto Marubo in Vale do Javari, Brazil, in 2022. Image courtesy of Beto Marubo.

‘We’re not going to give Lula a free pass’: Q&A with Indigenous leader Beto Marubo

Jaqueline Sordi 27 Dec 2022
Deforestation in Borneo.

Up to half of tropical forestland cleared for agriculture isn’t put to use, research shows

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 21 Dec 2022
Members of the Quilombolas community make their way across.

Video: Stolen Quilombola cemeteries in the Amazon, and the probe that revealed it all

Karla Mendes 20 Dec 2022
Raimundo Serrão lights candles for their departed family members.

Major Brazil palm oil exporter accused of fraud, land-grabbing over Quilombola cemeteries

Karla Mendes 15 Dec 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Deforestation accelerated in Brazil while climate talks were underway in Egypt

Mongabay.com 9 Dec 2022

Bill threatens more oil extraction, roads in Guatemala’s protected forests

Maxwell Radwin 9 Dec 2022
Daniel Berkembrock.

How agroforestry can restore degraded lands and provide income in the Amazon

Avener Prado, Ignacio Amigo, Sam Cowie 9 Dec 2022
A Mongabay investigation team visited the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon where Mennonites are illegally converting pristine forests in the Peruvian Amazon into agricultural land. Image by Romi Castagnino for Mongabay.

How did a religious group take over part of the Amazon?

Romi Castagnino 8 Dec 2022
Patchwork of legal forest reserves, pasture, and soy farms drone.

Despite 11% drop in 2022, Amazon deforestation rate has soared under Bolsonaro

Karla Mendes 2 Dec 2022
Aerial photo of riparian forest and deforestation for soy.

To be effective, zero-deforestation pledges need a critical mass, study shows

Sarah Sax 30 Nov 2022
There are signs of a new frontier of deforestation emerging in Autazes, as invaders descend on this slice of the Amazon. Indigenous leaders say the area is now plagued by illegal logging and land-grabbing. Much of it is related to speculation as a massive potash mining project awaits approval. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay

In Brazilian Amazon, mining harm comes from beyond just the mines, study shows

Maurício Brum 24 Nov 2022

U.N. report calls for the ban of mercury trade and its use in gold mining

Peter Speetjens 24 Nov 2022

Report offers a road map to restore the rule of law in the Brazilian Amazon

André Schröder 22 Nov 2022
Deforestation in Kapuas Hulu, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Where is the money? Brazil, Indonesia and Congo join forces in push for rainforest protection cash

Shanna Hanbury 18 Nov 2022
Illustration of deforestation.

Following the impacts of palm oil alliance: Violated regulations and penalty proceedings

Tras las huellas de la palma alliance 17 Nov 2022
Marina Silva.

Brazil’s new environmental future under Lula: Q&A with Marina Silva

Jaqueline Sordi 14 Nov 2022

With new EU rules ahead, Indonesia adds sustainability to its timber legality system

Hans Nicholas Jong 14 Nov 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

In final days before Bolsonaro’s defeat, deforestation boomed in Brazil

Mongabay.com 11 Nov 2022

EU ‘moving the goal posts’ with new timber requirement, Indonesia says

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Nov 2022
A photo taken of the Indigenous Tanaru man by a Funai official in 2018.

Delayed Indigenous ‘Man of the Hole’ burial reveals dispute over his land

Sarah Brown 9 Nov 2022
river forest

Deforestation is pushing Amazon to ‘point of no return’: WWF report

Maxwell Radwin 9 Nov 2022

Mercury rising: Why Bolivia remains South America’s hub for the toxic trade

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2022

Shady contracts, backdoor deals spur illegal gold mining in Bolivian Amazon

Maxwell Radwin 8 Nov 2022

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