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A golden-headed lion tamarin. Image courtesy of Leonardo Oliveira.

Rehab center opens for Brazil’s golden-headed lion tamarins amid urban sprawl threat

Shanna Hanbury 17 Apr 2026
Pista Velha mining site in the Baú Indigenous Territory captured during an overflight on July 19, 2025. Image courtesy of the Xingu+ Network.

Brazil: Satellites expose rampant gold mining expansion on Indigenous Kayapó land

Shanna Hanbury 15 Apr 2026
Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon in 2011. Photo by Rhett Butler.

The Amazon’s silent crime crisis (commentary)

Carlos Nobre, Robert Muggah, Ilona Szabo 15 Apr 2026
Palm trees, which make up 20% of the trees in the Amazon, grow mixed among various tree and grass species in the southern Peruvian Amazon lowlands of Manu National Park.

Novel research finds unexpected climate resilience in up to 36% of Amazon forest

Justin Catanoso 10 Apr 2026
Emergent rainforest tree in the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler for Mongabay.

Indigenous & community leaders say, ‘secure forest financing with us, not for us’ (commentary)

Inés Morales Lastra, José Ivanildo, Levi Sucre 7 Apr 2026

Brazilian banks to verify satellite deforestation data for rural credit

Associated Press 2 Apr 2026

Peru-Brazil Bioceanic Railway brings too much risk to the Amazon, experts warn

Yvette Sierra Praeli 31 Mar 2026

Study finds deforestation accounts for major Amazon rainfall decline

Logan Rance 26 Mar 2026
Juma Xipaia, an Indigenous chief from the Brazilian Amazon. Image © Malaika Pictures.

Behind the scenes of the Amazon’s gold rush: Director Richard Ladkani on the making of ‘Yanuni’

Aimee Gabay 25 Mar 2026
Occupation of Funai’s Altamira branch. Image courtesy of the Medio Xingu Indigenous Women’s Movement.

Indigenous groups demand halt to Belo Sun Amazon gold mine

Shanna Hanbury 23 Mar 2026
The Ranitomeya aetherea poison dart frog. Image courtesy of Alexander Mônico.

An ‘ethereal’ new-to-science poison dart frog from the Amazon: Photo of the week

Shanna Hanbury 19 Mar 2026
Ibama (Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources) conducting an operation to combat illegal gold mining in Indigenous territory in the state of Pará, Brazil.

Mining rush for critical minerals threatens Amazon land reform settlements

Sam Cowie, Cícero Pedrosa Neto, Isabel Harari 9 Mar 2026
An Araucaria angustifolia, a critically endangered conifer, in Itatiaia National Park in the Atlantic Forest.

Restoration of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest may hinge on market for native plants

Sarah Derouin 6 Mar 2026
Residents transport drinking water along the dry Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River, during the dry season, in 2024. Image by AP Photo/Edmar Barros.

Falling Amazon river flows trigger reality check at Belo Monte power plant

Rafael Spuldar 4 Mar 2026
A fisherman is silhouetted as he casts his net into the Tapajos River in Santarem, Para state, 2020.

Concern among Indigenous leaders, relief for a few, as Amazon Soy Moratorium falters

Rubens Valente 3 Mar 2026

Agroforestry offers market-based way to boost Amazon rains & farmer incomes (analysis)

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Feb 2026

The cost of compliance with the EUDR will limit its impact on reducing deforestation (commentary)

Bjørn Rask Thomsen, Daniel Nepstad 23 Feb 2026
Rain over the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

The Amazon’s most valuable export isn’t timber — it’s rain

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Feb 2026
Highway BR-163 stretches between the Tapajos National Forest, left, and a soy field in Belterra, Para state, Brazil. Highway BR-163, built during the military dictatorship in the 1970s, connects areas of strong support for former President Jair Bolsonaro, who lost October's election. Image by AP Photo/Leo Correa.

Banks must step in before the Amazon Soy Moratorium collapses (commentary)

Ginger Cassady 18 Feb 2026

Researchers eye jaguar conservation wins under Brazil Indigenous stewardship project

James Hall, Karla Mendes 18 Feb 2026
Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Amazon deforestation on pace to be the lowest on record, says Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Feb 2026
A Pirahã family floating on a river, 2017.

Malaria outbreak among Indigenous Pirahã linked to forest loss, satellite data find

Aimee Gabay 17 Feb 2026
Satellite image of the eastern part of the Cape York Peninsula in Australia. Courtesy of Earthstar Geographics SIO / Microsoft maps

Scientists can’t agree on where the world’s forests are

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Feb 2026
Cattle stand near a wooded area smoldering in the Alvorada da Amazonia region in Novo Progresso, Para state.

Brazil gov’t builds map to help exporters comply with EU anti-deforestation rule

Karla Mendes 12 Feb 2026
A small airplane used for the illegal mining network is set on fire by IBAMA inspectors in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory.

Brazil mining boss sentenced for illegal gold operation on Indigenous land

Shanna Hanbury 12 Feb 2026
Aerial view of the Caramuru-Paraguassu Indigenous Territory in Brazil's northeastern Bahia state. Although the territory was officially recognized in 1926, it was illegally occupied by cattle ranchers for decades, which changed its climate, soil and forest characteristics. Image by Karla Mendes/Mongabay.

Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Indigenous lands show strong restoration gains

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 11 Feb 2026
Demonstrators on Feb. 8 in Santarém, Pará state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Movimento Tapajós Vivo.

Indigenous protests force Brazil to suspend Tapajós River dredging plan

Shanna Hanbury 10 Feb 2026
In the village of Três Maria in Mato Grosso, Brazil, a woman holds a sample of babassu coconut. The community initiative to protect the biome and fruit extraction in the Cerrado received a Xavante Award from the Podáali Fund.

‘We have to bring trust’ into funding talks: Valéria Paye on Indigenous-led funds

Holly C. Jonas, Alexandre de Santi 9 Feb 2026
A section of the Amazon rainforest stands next to soy fields in Belterra, Para state, Brazil, on Nov. 30, 2019. Image by AP Photo/Leo Correa.

Amazon deforestation may rise 30% as major traders exit historic soy pact

Fernanda Wenzel 2 Feb 2026
Açaí extraction provides income for local communities while helping to keep forests standing.

Brazil declares açaí a national fruit amid biopiracy concerns

Shanna Hanbury 30 Jan 2026
Tapir in Brazil. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Brazil sets out its strategy for nature

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jan 2026
As COP30 unfolded in Belém this past November, civil defense coordinator Edson Abreu dos Santos decided to revisit the areas that had burned in Acará.

Seminarian-turned-fire-agent preaches new tactics to fight Amazon’s burn crisis

Carla Ruas 28 Jan 2026

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