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Deforestation falls for 8th straight month in the Amazon rainforest, but rises in the cerrado

Mongabay.com 8 Dec 2023

Coca in the Amazon – The anti-development crop

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Dec 2023

Local and national food crops in the Andean Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Dec 2023

Brazil cattle traceability program to limit deforestation in Pará state

Maxwell Radwin 4 Dec 2023
Planet satellite images of the drought-affected Rio Negro in October 2023. Photo courtesy of Planet Labs.

What Brazil should have said at COP28 but didn’t (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 4 Dec 2023
Rainbow over rainforest and plantations in Jambi on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Photo credit Rhett A. Butler

Brazil proposes $250 billion “Tropical Forests Forever” fund for rainforests

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2023

High quality cacao in Amazonia

Timothy J. Killeen 29 Nov 2023

Cargill widens its deforestation-free goals, but critics say it’s not enough

Maxwell Radwin 29 Nov 2023

Cultivation and processing of Amazonian coffees

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Nov 2023
Jesi Ferreira de Castro, coordinator of the São Francisco community

Paradise lost? Brazil’s biggest bauxite mining firm denies riverine rights

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 27 Nov 2023

In Brazil’s Amazon, a clandestine road threatens a pristine reserve

Ana Ionova 24 Nov 2023

Jane Goodall and Dax Dasilva partner with Amazon Indigenous youth for new Roots & Shoots program

Liz Kimbrough 24 Nov 2023

Coffee and cacao in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Nov 2023

Biofuels in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Nov 2023
Reserva Narupa in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Jurisdictional REDD+ ready to fund forest-positive, socially-inclusive development in the Amazon and beyond (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 20 Nov 2023
Indigenous forest guardians Laércio Guajajara and Paulo Paulino Guajajara.

End of impunity for Indigenous killings in sight for Brazil’s Guajajara

Karla Mendes 20 Nov 2023

Shell affiliate accused of violating Indigenous rights in carbon credit contracts

Fábio Bispo 14 Nov 2023

What does oil palm require to reach international markets?

Timothy J. Killeen 14 Nov 2023
Oil palm plantation workers wait for the truck to take them to work.

Palm oil cultivation in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Nov 2023
Planet satellite image of the Anavilhanas Archipelago in the Rio Negro in Brazil in October 2023 during a severe drought. Courtesy of Planet.

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon falls 22% in 2023

Rhett A. Butler 11 Nov 2023

Amazon deforestation has a regional, not just local impact: study

Maxwell Radwin 10 Nov 2023

‘We just want to be left in peace’: In Brazil’s Amazon, soy ambitions loom over Indigenous land

Ana Ionova 9 Nov 2023
Oil palm fruit collection in a plantation.

Oil palm in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Nov 2023

Agriculture in the Pan-Amazon: Swine and poultry – Adding value to farm production

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Nov 2023
A biodiversity index created by Bioverse using machine learning to detect species and then spatially categorize them. Image courtesy of Bioverse.

Can digital twins help save the Amazon? (commentary)

Carlo Ratti, Robert Muggah 2 Nov 2023

Agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Industrial infrastructure for grains and cereals

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Nov 2023

Agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Global markets for soybean and corn crops

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Oct 2023

Intensive agriculture in the Pan Amazon: Soy, maize and other field crops

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Oct 2023

Livestock farming in the Andean Amazon and the rest of the Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Oct 2023

New satellite readings show full extent of mining in the Amazon Rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 24 Oct 2023

National versus global markets – beef in the Brazilian Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 19 Oct 2023

Industrial infrastructure in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Oct 2023

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