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Greenpeace protesting against a company's palm oil policy. Courtesy of Greenpeace

10 reasons to be optimistic for forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jun 2016

Dams flood 36,000 hectares of Brazilian rainforest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 May 2016

Proposed Amazon dam attracts illegal loggers, threatens local farmers

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 19 May 2016

Tapajós dam puts newly discovered species, indigenous people at risk

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 17 May 2016

Gold mining shifts course of Peruvian river, ‘will destroy’ ecosystems

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 May 2016

Keeping Amazon fish connected is key to their conservation

Claire Salisbury 13 May 2016
Riparian forest and soy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Brazilian soy industry extends moratorium on deforestation indefinitely

Mongabay.com 9 May 2016

RSPO orders Peruvian palm oil plantation to stop development

Apoorva Joshi 5 May 2016

Brazil is scaling back its protected area network and the short-term effect on forests might surprise you

Mike Gaworecki 5 May 2016

Brazil’s Congress moves ahead to end nation’s environmental safeguards

Sue Branford 5 May 2016

Indigenous and forest community leaders tour the EU to call for conflict-free palm oil

Mike Gaworecki 4 May 2016

Ethics, sustainability, and Amazon hydropower: mission impossible?

Claire Salisbury 4 May 2016

Leonardo DiCaprio invests in company, donates shares to Amazon indigenous organization

Mike Gaworecki 3 May 2016

Booming soy industry could threaten Brazil’s climate commitments, researchers warn

Mike Gaworecki 3 May 2016

Peru’s climate commitments threatened by advancing oil palm

Milton López Tarabochia 28 Apr 2016

Illegal logging “mafia” arrested in Peru

Mike Gaworecki 27 Apr 2016

Amazon mega-dam suspended, providing hope for indigenous people and biodiversity

Claire Salisbury 22 Apr 2016

Iriri River families fight to keep their Amazonian homelands

Sue Branford 21 Apr 2016

Major Brazilian supermarket chain will stop stocking Amazon-destroying beef

Mike Gaworecki 14 Apr 2016

Brazil’s Cerrado region: A new tropical deforestation hotspot

Mike Gaworecki 8 Apr 2016

BNDES Speaks Out: giant Brazilian bank offers rare in-depth interview

Sue Branford 6 Apr 2016

Indigenous Brazilians under threat from killings and resource projects: UN Rapporteur

Sandra Cuffe 4 Apr 2016

Report from the Amazon #5: Iriri River folk may be forced from their homes to protect the environment they love

Sue Branford 4 Apr 2016
CRabin_Pinto_2012 Lúcio Flávio Pinto at home in 2012. Photo courtesy of Lúcio Flávio Pinto.

Amazon journalist endures, despite decades of threats and harassment

Cláudio Rabin 31 Mar 2016

BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters

Sue Branford 29 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #4: Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, once hostile to each other, now mingle

Sue Branford 24 Mar 2016

Conservation giant puts $100M into Amazon protected areas

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Mar 2016

BNDES funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #3: Iriri River offers up examples of sustainable and unsustainable business

Sue Branford 16 Mar 2016

BNDES has long history of loans to gigantic construction companies

Sue Branford 14 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #2: Newly created conservation unit could push long-time residents from their lands

Sue Branford 11 Mar 2016
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Mato Grosso leading the fight against climate change and deforestation (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 10 Mar 2016

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