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Brazilian Indigenous lawyer Kari Guajajara. Image by USAID via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

‘We can’t talk solutions without understanding complexities: Kari Guajajara on Brazil’s Amazon

Latoya Abulu 12 May 2025

Agriculture, illegal ranching and roads threaten the jaguar in Mesoamerica

Astrid Arellano 3 Feb 2025
Satellite imagery captured September 2024 by Planet Labs shows a fire burning along the boundary between Xingu Indigenous Park and Capoto/Jarina Indigenous Territory. The territories are surrounded by denuded industrial farm fields.

Fires rip through Indigenous territories in Brazilian Amazon

Ruth Kamnitzer 29 Nov 2024

In Bolivia’s flooded savannas, ranching aims to boost grasslands conservation

Brian Kluepfel 29 Nov 2024

Organizations tackle droughts, floods in Brazil by planting forests

Ellen Nemitz 18 Nov 2024
Cattle and zebras share grazing land inside the Enonkishu Conservancy, southern Kenya. Image by David Njagi for Mongabay.

A mobile solution for Kenyan pastoralists’ livestock is a plus for wildlife, too

David Njagi 6 Nov 2023

Rainforest cowboys: Rodeo culture sweeps the Amazon

Heinar Maracy 12 Jun 2023

Illegal settlements, hunting and logging threaten a state reserve in Mexico

Thelma Gómez Durán 8 Jun 2023

Study shows 10 million acres of Colombian rainforest at risk without new policies

Astrid Arellano 22 May 2023

3 million hectares of Colombian Amazon deforested for illegal pasture: Study

Antonio José Paz Cardona 19 May 2023
Triunfo do Xingu, a sustainable development reserve in the Brazilian state of Pará, has in recent years become the epicenter of the forest destruction gripping the Amazon Rainforest. Cattle ranching is responsible for much of the destruction, but wildcat mining and land grabbing are fast advancing too. Across the reserve, toppled trees, open-pit mines and charred jungle are a common sight. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

Deforestation ‘out of control’ in reserve in Brazil’s cattle capital

Ana Ionova 11 Jan 2023
An SOS Pantanal firefighter battles a blaze. Image by Gustavo Figueiroa/SOS Pantanal.

In Brazil’s Pantanal, early flames signal a ‘new normal’

Ana Ionova 15 Aug 2022

For traditional peoples in Brazil’s Maranhão state, progress brings violence

Ed Wilson Araújo 9 Jun 2022
A rancher herds cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Foreign capital powers Brazil’s meatpackers and helps deforest the Amazon

Moyra Ashford, Sue Branford 7 Jun 2022

Efforts bloom to save southern Brazil’s last butiá palm groves

Aldem Bourscheit 24 May 2022
The Terra do Meio Ecological Station, near the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protected Area, is home to margays (Leopardus wiedii), small wild cats native to South and Central America. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Pasture replaces large tract of intact primary forest in Brazilian protected area

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2022
Ranchers who received customized training made more sustainable changes to their properties, including pasture restoration, that led to both economic and environmental benefits, researchers say.

Training on pasture recovery is a win-win for Brazil’s cattle ranchers and forests

Sarah Brown 12 May 2022
An official from Operation Green Brazil surveys a deforested and burned landscape. Image by Ibama via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

‘Rampant forest destruction’ wracks reserve as cattle ranching advances in Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 29 Dec 2021

Slashed forest protections ignites land grabbing frenzy in Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 22 Dec 2021
Souza Dias Alvez, of the Mura Indigenous people, looks over the destruction left behind by invaders who cleared a swath of rainforest in the São Pedro Indigenous Reserve in Autazes, Amazonas. The region is seeing a surge in deforestation that is now encroaching on Indigenous lands, as buffalo ranchers turn more land into pasture. Mongabay by Ana Ionova.

Indigenous lands under siege as buffalo frenzy grips the Amazon

Ana Ionova 5 Nov 2021

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

Liz Kimbrough 6 Oct 2021

Drugs, fire, settlers poised to wipe out one of Paraguay’s most biodiverse forests

Aldo Benítez 27 May 2021

Settlers invading, deforesting Colombian national parks ‘at an unstoppable speed’

Antonio José Paz Cardona 19 May 2021

Drugs and agriculture cause deforestation to skyrocket at Honduran UNESCO site

Karen Paredes, Leonardo Guevara, Lesly Frazier 30 Apr 2021

Guarani Indigenous men brutalized in Brazilian ‘expansion of violence’

Jenny Gonzales 24 Mar 2021

No, ‘regenerative ranching’ is not good for grassland birds (commentary)

Jennifer Molidor 8 Sep 2020

COVID-19 and rainforest fires set up potential public health crisis

John Cannon 18 Jun 2020

Overlap of fire, COVID-19 peaks: A ‘catastrophe’ for Brazil’s Amazon

John Cannon 9 Jun 2020

Illegal tin mining leaves trail of ruin in protected Brazilian rainforest

Ana Ionova 30 Dec 2019

Mexico plans huge increase in palm oil production in sensitive ecosystems

Rodrigo Soberanes 14 Nov 2019

Indigenous communities ‘robbed’ as land grabbers lay waste to Brazilian rainforest

Ana Ionova 28 Oct 2019

Greta and Mesoamerica’s five great forests (commentary)

Jeremy Radachowsky and Chris Jordan 23 Sep 2019

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