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China's megaproject Chancay Port on Peru's Pacific coast, inaugurated by President Xi Jinping, is a key hub for the Belt and Road Initiative and future trade with South America, including Brazil's Amazon exports. Image courtesy of Peru’s Presidential Office (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Brazil plans new Amazon routes linking the Pacific & China’s New Silk Road

Fabio Zuker 31 Mar 2025
Zeeshan Mirza with one of the new tarantula species from the Western Ghats. Mirza has discovered several species of reptiles in India as well. Photo courtesy of Mirza.

Exploring India, finding new species: Interview with biologist Zeeshan Mirza

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2025
The first Indigenous man from the Mamoriá Grande area to contact non-Indigenous society received medical assistance at a Funai base in early February. Image courtesy of Funai and Sesai (Indigenous Health Secretariat).

Pressure bears down around uncontacted tribes at the edge of Brazil’s arc of deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel 21 Mar 2025

Brazil declares environmental emergency ahead of 2025 fire season

Shanna Hanbury 20 Mar 2025
Pataxó and Tupinambá people rally against the time frame (marco temporal) law on March 13, 2025, in front of the Brazilian Supreme Court in Brasília. Image courtesy of CIMI.

‘Unprecedented’ Supreme Court bill threatens Indigenous rights in Brazil

Karla Mendes 19 Mar 2025
Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) near the Tapajós river, next to Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land, home to the Munduruku people, Pará state, Brazil.

Officials share strategies to stop spread of illegal miners from Munduruku land

Aimee Gabay 18 Mar 2025
Amazon people in the BR-163 area, such as Mariana, face challenges from the economic model imposed by agribusiness, logging and gold mining. Image by Fernando Martinho.

The rough road to sustainable farming in an Amazon deforestation hotspot

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Mar 2025
95% of identified deforestation cases between 2017 and 2020 have not resulted in environmental compensation payments. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Only 5% of deforesters in Brazil’s Amazon fully paid fines, report finds

Shanna Hanbury 12 Mar 2025

Brazil’s Lava Jato investigation: the biggest corruption scandal of the last decade

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Mar 2025
tree timber Brazil

Forest management ambitions in Brazilian Amazon aim to make up for lost time

Jenny Gonzales 12 Mar 2025

Brazil’s SUDAM scandal, a case of government-backed deforestation

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Mar 2025
Illegal deforestation in Pauini, Amazonas state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Brazilian Federal Police.

91% of Brazilian Amazon deforestation last year was illegal, report finds

Shanna Hanbury 4 Mar 2025
Equipped with drones and other technologies, young people from the Yanomami Indigenous Land actively monitor their territory, which has faced a serious humanitarian and environmental crisis due to illegal gold and cassiterite mining. Image courtesy of Evilene Paixão/HAY.

Yanomami youth turn to drones to watch their Amazon territory

Elizabeth Oliveira 28 Feb 2025

Pollinator decline & climate change threaten chocolate production

Bobby Bascomb 27 Feb 2025
A 2023 expedition along the Uatumã River documented biodiversity loss linked to the Balbina dam. In 2024, a survey of the undammed Jatapu River revealed a region teeming with life. Image courtesy of the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA).

Endemic fish wiped out in Brazilian Amazon hydroelectric dam area, study finds

Sarah Brown 25 Feb 2025
Banner image: A teenager from an isolated Indigenous group voluntarily made contact. Image courtesy of Survival International.

Deforestation and airstrip close to isolated teen’s Indigenous land in Brazil Amazon

Shanna Hanbury 24 Feb 2025
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Labrea, Amazonas state, Brazil. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. Image © Christian Braga / Greenpeace.

Pause to USAID already having impacts on community conservation in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 24 Feb 2025

As the rainforest gets drier, Amazon Indigenous groups thirst for clean water

Kevin Damasio 18 Feb 2025

Wild Targets

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2025

Mining dredges return to Amazon River’s main tributary, months after crackdown

Fernanda Wenzel 10 Feb 2025

Mongabay series on illegal timber and cattle wins honorable mention in Brazil journalism prize

Mongabay.com 7 Feb 2025

Handcrafted woodwork helps save an Amazonian reserve, one tree at a time

Sibélia Zanon 5 Feb 2025

Amazon states lead rebellion on environmental enforcement

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Feb 2025

Yanomami sees success two years into Amazon miner evictions, but fears remain

Fernanda Wenzel 29 Jan 2025
Greenpeace Brazil conducted an aerial survey in southern Amazonas and northern Rondônia to monitor deforestation and fires in July 2024. Photo © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace.

Drop in Amazon deforestation confirmed, but degradation soars 497% in 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Jan 2025

Calls for protection as new images emerge of uncontacted Amazonian tribe

Karla Mendes 27 Jan 2025
Aerial view of an area in the Amazon deforested for cattle ranching -- the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon -- in Lábrea, Amazonas state on Sep 15, 2021. Photo © Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance)

EUDR divides Brazil’s environmental and agribusiness authorities

Karla Mendes 27 Jan 2025
Rodrigo Agostinho, head of IBAMA

‘We’re getting back on track’: Interview with IBAMA head Rodrigo Agostinho

Karla Mendes 24 Jan 2025
An aerial image shows rainforest fragmented by cattle ranching.

Study shows degradation changes a forest’s tree profile and its carbon storage

Peter Speetjens 22 Jan 2025

Brazil’s ‘innovative’ reforestation agenda discussed in Davos (commentary)

Guilherme Leal, Paulo Hartung, Roberto Waack 21 Jan 2025
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Probe details the playbook of one of Amazon’s top land grabbers

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Jan 2025

Vested interests and social tribes in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 16 Jan 2025

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