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Chevron's Duri oil field in Riau, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

How does the global commodity collapse impact forest conservation?

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Dec 2015

Bellavista no more: Peru’s infamous wildlife market reduced to rubble

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 17 Dec 2015

The most recent seizure shows the scale and extent of illegal timber trafficking in Peru

Ruxandra Guidi 14 Dec 2015

200,000 of Peru’s primates trafficked for pet trade or bushmeat yearly

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 11 Dec 2015

Government forestry office in Peru is attacked after largest illegal wood seizure in the country

Ruxandra Guidi 8 Dec 2015

Illegal gold miners in Madre de Dios, Peru, paralyze the region with protests

Ruxandra Guidi 4 Dec 2015

Grassroots leader’s murder in Peru is a signal to opponents of mining, son says

Barbara Fraser 27 Nov 2015

Deforestation and death threats: activist and family threatened in Peru

John Cannon 24 Nov 2015

Researchers in Peru capture some of the Amazon’s rarest and most elusive wildlife on video

Mike Gaworecki 23 Nov 2015

Environmentalist gunned down by illegal miners in Peru

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Nov 2015

New fund lands $4M to protect the Amazon

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2015

‘A critical gift’: Peru rejoices as a new national park is born

Apoorva Joshi, Morgan Erickson-Davis 10 Nov 2015
Sierra del Divisor's famed cone. Photo by Diego Pérez / El Taller.pe

Peru creates ‘Yellowstone of the Amazon’: 3.3M acre reserve home to uncontacted tribes, endangered wildlife

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Nov 2015

Private conservation lands under threat in Peruvian Amazon

Barbara Fraser 30 Oct 2015

After years of struggle and bloodshed, Peruvian community wins back its land

Apoorva Joshi 9 Oct 2015
Map of historic deforestation in the Amazon rainforest since 1970

Deforestation declines in the Amazon rainforest

Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Oct 2015

Road creeps into Peru’s Sierra del Divisor as it awaits national park designation

John Cannon 2 Oct 2015

Policing domestic wildlife trafficking in Peru

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 30 Sep 2015

Using art and technology to save the Amazon

Nika Levikov 21 Sep 2015

Scientists capture first ever footage of rare, threatened bird in Peru’s Cerros del Sira

Mike Gaworecki 15 Sep 2015

Cacao plantation ramping up forest clearing in Peru

John Cannon 9 Sep 2015

Peru’s Conundrum: a Pope’s environmental message divides his people

Justin Catanoso 4 Sep 2015

Hundreds of new Amazon dams an “ecological experiment” on global scale

Julian Smith 27 Aug 2015

Migration between Peruvian Andes and Amazon impacts both environments

Saul Elbein 21 Aug 2015

Scientists discover new primate in the embattled heart of the Amazon

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2015

Poor enticed by gold and better life, leave behind environmental ruin

Saul Elbein 7 Aug 2015

Meet Peru’s new fleshbelly frog

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Aug 2015

Mining the heart of the Mother of God: Peru’s gold rush claims more forest

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 4 Aug 2015

Amazon Headwaters Under Siege: 19 dams slated for Napo watershed

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2015

Scaling bottom-up conservation in Latin America

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Jul 2015

Researchers find ‘hidden tapestry’ of plant chemicals in Amazon forest

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jul 2015

Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2015

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