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Latex collected from the trees is pressed and formed into blocks, which are easier to transport from the territory.

Indigenous rubber bounces back for Amazon conservation and higher income

Sarah Brown 8 Jul 2025
Dozens of isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon. Image courtesy of Survival International.

Methods to recognize the Amazon’s isolated peoples: Interview with Antenor Vaz

Aimee Gabay 5 Jun 2025
Rodrigo Agostinho, head of IBAMA

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

Karla Mendes 24 Jan 2025

Indigenous communities come together to protect the Colombian Amazon

Mie Hoejris Dahl 8 Jan 2025
YEAR IN RAINFORESTS BANNER

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Dec 2024

‘Time is water’: A cross-border Indigenous alliance works to save the Amazon

Francesc Badia i Dalmases 23 Dec 2024

‘Trump is a disease’, says Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa

Daniel Camargos, from Repórter Brasil 2 Dec 2024
Luís Adriano Nascimento, chemist and vice-coordinator of the Laboratório de Óleos da Amazônia (Amazon Oils Laboratory, LOA), stands at a lab bench with a wide collection of Amazonian fruits and seeds used to make oils, biofuels and bioplastics.

Raw materials become high-value bioeconomy goods at an Amazon science park

Sarah Brown 6 Aug 2024
Hymenaea courbaril

Time for a copal comeback? The natural resin could boost Amazon’s economy

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jul 2024

New study reaffirms Indigenous lands key to mitigating climate change in Brazil

Sarah Sax 25 Jun 2024
River in the Amazon rainforest. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Deforestation in Earth’s largest rainforest continues to plummet despite a rise in fires

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jun 2024
Recent deforestation for oil palm in the Amazon rainforest

Governments are ramping up actions to fight environmental crime across the Amazon, but is it working? (commentary)

Robert Muggah 27 May 2024
An uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the Brazilian state of Acre.

Cross-border Indigenous efforts in Peru & Brazil aim to protect isolated groups

Aimee Gabay 18 Apr 2024
AI generated image of a satellite over South America

New technologies to map environmental crime in the Amazon Basin (commentary)

Robert Muggah and Peter Smith 12 Apr 2024
Artistic rendering of a forest shaped like a brain. AI-generated.

To reverse deforestation and protect biodiversity, build a bioeconomy in the Amazon (commentary)

Robert Muggah 23 Feb 2024
At least 228 freshwater dolphins have died in lakes connected to rivers, possibly killed by excess heat.

Detailed NASA analysis finds Earth and Amazon in deep climate trouble

Jenny Gonzales 21 Dec 2023

Science panel presents COP28 with blueprint for saving the Amazon

Dimitri Selibas 13 Dec 2023
Mist rising from the Amazon rainforest at dawn. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Amazon deforestation declines but fossil fuels remain contentious, COP28 shows

Sarah Brown 7 Dec 2023
Portrait of Quinto Inuma. Image courtesy of Quinto Inuma.

Safety of Peru’s land defenders in question after killing of Indigenous leader in the Amazon

Geraldine Santos, Gloria Alvitres 7 Dec 2023

Least-studied areas of Brazilian Amazon at high risk from climate change

Maurício Brum and Lucas Berti 6 Dec 2023
Planet satellite images of the drought-affected Rio Negro in October 2023. Photo courtesy of Planet Labs.

What Brazil should have said at COP28 but didn’t (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 4 Dec 2023
Ismael Nobre

Cacao and cupuaçu emerge as Amazon’s bioeconomy showcases

Sarah Brown 4 Oct 2023
An uncontacted Indigenous community in Acre, Brazil.

New online map tracks threats to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon

Sarah Brown 27 Sep 2023
Cattle in Pará state.

EU bill and new green policies spur progress on Brazil’s cattle tracking

André Schröder 21 Sep 2023

Peru signs $20-million debt-for-nature swap with focus on Amazon rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 12 Sep 2023
A rancher herds cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

How the Amazon’s ‘greatest devastator’ sold cattle to a Carrefour supplier 

Marina Rossi/Daniel Camargos/Hyury Potter 29 Aug 2023
Rainforest in the upper Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Amazon deforestation continues to fall under Lula

Mongabay.com 5 Aug 2023
Defo

Rare Amazon dark soils could help forest restoration, study shows

Juliana Ennes 14 Jun 2023
Cows.

A Twitter bot tracks meat production in the Brazilian Amazon

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 May 2023
Ceremony in homage to those assassinated during the national strike of June 2022.

Latin America had the most attacks on environmental defenders in 2022, says report

Juan Carlos Granados, Pilar Puentes 5 May 2023
CI-Brazil and partners mixing the muvuca seeds.

World’s ‘largest’ tropical reforestation project slowed by Covid, Bolsonaro, fires

Jeremy Hance 4 May 2023
Glicéria Tupinambá watches First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament.

Brazilian Indigenous anthropologists turn the tables from ‘objects of study’ to active voices

Max Baring 20 Feb 2023

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