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Flowers in Anchieta in Brazil. Photo by Ignacio Amigo/Mongabay.

In Brazil, an island laboratory for Atlantic Forest restoration

Ignacio Amigo 3 May 2018

Religious leaders mobilize to protect indigenous people and forests

Liz Kimbrough 2 May 2018

New film shines light on cattle industry link to Amazon deforestation

Anna Sophie Gross 1 May 2018

3,000 indigenous people gather in Brasilia to protest ruralist agenda

Sue Branford 30 Apr 2018
The traditional Caiçara canoe is in the process of becoming part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Brazilian culture. But building the canoes is becoming increasingly difficult due to bureaucratic setbacks to obtain the wood. Courtesty personal collection of Mario Gato and Ana Carolina Barbosa.

For the Caiçaras, environmental laws in Brazil at odds with tradition

Ignacio Amigo 25 Apr 2018

Conservation Effectiveness series sparks action, dialogue

Shreya Dasgupta, Zuzana Burivalova 23 Apr 2018
Rainforest on Madagascar's Masoala Peninsula. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Save intact forests for humanity’s sake, urge experts

Mongabay.com 20 Apr 2018

Brazil’s actual forest-related CO2 emissions could blow by Paris pledge

Claire Asher 19 Apr 2018

Brazil’s high court curbs executive power to dismember protected areas

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 12 Apr 2018

NGOs acquire land in Brazil to create wildlife corridor

Ignacio Amigo 12 Apr 2018

NGOs denounce Tapajós basin intimidation, violence, Brazil inaction

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 4 Apr 2018
Waterfall in Laos. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Calls for change in handling abuse allegations at top conservation group

Genevieve Belmaker 2 Apr 2018

New study discovers 81 lost human settlements in the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2018

Cerrado Manifesto could curb deforestation, but needs support: experts

Anna Sophie Gross 29 Mar 2018

How to build a Guardian: students learn about making technology work in the field

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 23 Mar 2018

Cerrado: Traditional communities accuse agribusiness of ‘green land grabbing’

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 22 Mar 2018

Brazilian lawmakers funded by donors guilty of environmental crimes: report

Anna Sophie Gross 21 Mar 2018

Leopards could reduce rabies by controlling stray dog numbers in India, study finds

Mongabay.com 21 Mar 2018

Pearl Jam invests in Amazonian reforestation to offset emissions from current Brazil tour

Mongabay.com 20 Mar 2018

Better agricultural planning could prevent 88% of biodiversity loss, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Mar 2018

Camera traps nab crop-raiding animals near farms in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2018

Small hydropower a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

Claire Salisbury 13 Mar 2018
Rainforest in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Tropical deforestation: the need for a strategy adjustment (commentary)

Dan Nepstad 8 Mar 2018
Quilombo people in Brazil in this file photo from 2000. Photo courtesy Brazil Ministry of Culture.

Brazilian ‘quilombo’ community entitled with 220,000 hectares of rainforest

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2018

Analysis: the Brazilian Supreme Court’s New Forest Code ruling

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 7 Mar 2018

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Tom Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018

Brazil high court Forest Code ruling largely bad for environment, Amazon: NGOs

Sue Branford 1 Mar 2018

Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Claire Asher 28 Feb 2018

Norsk Hydro accused of Amazon toxic spill, admits ‘clandestine pipeline’

Max Nathanson 27 Feb 2018

Belo Monte legacy: harm from Amazon dam didn’t end with construction (photo story)

Maximo Anderson, Aaron Vincent Elkaim 26 Feb 2018

Drought-driven wildfires on rise in Amazon basin, upping CO2 release

Claire Asher 22 Feb 2018

Protected areas with deforestation more likely to lose status in Brazilian state

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2018

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