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The year in rainforests 2021

Across Latin America, Mennonites seek out isolation at the expense of forests

Mongabay reporter sued in what appears to be a pattern of legal intimidation by Peruvian cacao company

Betty Rubio, the tech-savvy Kichwa leader defending threatened territory

Meet Magali, the conservation warrior rescuing Peru’s rainforest animals: Video

With La Niña conditions back, is it good news for tropical forests?

Brazil leads Amazon in forest loss this year, Indigenous and protected areas hold out

Fires in the Amazon have already impacted 90% of plant and animal species

As illegal logging route in Peru nears Brazil, Indigenous groups warn of calamity

Drug trafficking threatens Indigenous Shipibo communities in Peru

The women on the front lines of safeguarding the Amazon

In Peru, a corrupt land-titling scheme sees forests sold off as farms

Shoe-leather science helps quadruple protected area in Peruvian Amazon

Arboreal camera traps add ‘tons of value’ to forest canopy research

Planned Brazil-Peru highway threatens one of Earth’s most biodiverse places

Armed with data and smartphones, Amazon communities boost fight against deforestation

US, UK join Norway and Germany in effort to protect Peru’s rainforests

Science refutes United Cacao’s claim it didn’t deforest Peruvian Amazon

We need more rewilding and connections to nature, says Enrique Ortiz

The political economy of the Pan-Amazon (book excerpt)

Peru to establish rainforest reserve for isolated Indigenous peoples

Exposing organized crime in the Amazon: Q&A with Robert Muggah of the Igarapé Institute

The Amazon lost an area of primary forest larger than Israel in 2020, new analysis finds

Indigenous Cacataibo of Peru threatened by land grabbing and drug trade

Illegal deforestation rises in South America’s Indigenous territories, parks

How the pandemic impacted rainforests in 2020: a year in review

New innovations to clean up the impacts of mining

Peruvian court absolves cacao company of illegal Amazon deforestation after “lobbying effort”

In an oil spill’s aftermath in Peru, new voices lead an Indigenous fight for justice

Indigenous leader who fought for communities and conservation mourned in Peru

‘CSI Amazon’: Epic study looks at what’s killing the rainforest’s trees

Peru prosecutors probe Amazon deforestation linked to Mennonite communities

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