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Conventional survey techniques underestimate Amazon biodiversity: report

Mike Gaworecki 25 Apr 2016

Scientists just discovered an Amazon reef system in an area targeted for oil exploration

Mike Gaworecki 22 Apr 2016

Amazon mega-dam suspended, providing hope for indigenous people and biodiversity

Claire Salisbury 22 Apr 2016

Gold mining ramps up, pushes deeper into Peruvian reserve

Morgan Erickson-Davis 22 Apr 2016

Iriri River families fight to keep their Amazonian homelands

Sue Branford 21 Apr 2016

Disease prevention a boost to human health and great ape conservation

Elizabeth Devitt 21 Apr 2016

Major Brazilian supermarket chain will stop stocking Amazon-destroying beef

Mike Gaworecki 14 Apr 2016

Brazil’s Cerrado region: A new tropical deforestation hotspot

Mike Gaworecki 8 Apr 2016

BNDES Speaks Out: giant Brazilian bank offers rare in-depth interview

Sue Branford 6 Apr 2016

Participatory Mapping in the Mobile Age

Nathan Hahn 6 Apr 2016

Indigenous Brazilians under threat from killings and resource projects: UN Rapporteur

Sandra Cuffe 4 Apr 2016

Report from the Amazon #5: Iriri River folk may be forced from their homes to protect the environment they love

Sue Branford 4 Apr 2016

Portable scanners that identify timber species could detect illegal logging

Julia John 4 Apr 2016

The week in environmental news – April 01, 2016

Brittany Stewart 1 Apr 2016

Deadly bat disease has now reached Washington state

Shreya Dasgupta 1 Apr 2016
CRabin_Pinto_2012 Lúcio Flávio Pinto at home in 2012. Photo courtesy of Lúcio Flávio Pinto.

Amazon journalist endures, despite decades of threats and harassment

Cláudio Rabin 31 Mar 2016

Peru’s newest protected area could be a tropical sea paradise

Ruxandra Guidi 30 Mar 2016

BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters

Sue Branford 29 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #4: Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, once hostile to each other, now mingle

Sue Branford 24 Mar 2016
Carly & Camas look for black-footed ferret in Colorado

The tech-noses of the wildlife conservation world

Carly Vynne 23 Mar 2016

Conservation giant puts $100M into Amazon protected areas

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Mar 2016

Ecuadorean government aims to stop one road from going into Amazon

Ruxandra Guidi 21 Mar 2016

Can new technologies help solve the mysteries of migration?

Katie Taylor 18 Mar 2016

Illegal deforestation for ‘sustainable’ chocolate continues in Peru

Morgan Erickson-Davis 17 Mar 2016

BNDES funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems

Sue Branford 17 Mar 2016

Report from the Amazon #3: Iriri River offers up examples of sustainable and unsustainable business

Sue Branford 16 Mar 2016

Expedition finds butterfly bonanza in Bolivian national park (PHOTOS)

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Mar 2016

Toddler’s murder in Brazil unveils widespread violence against country’s indigenous

Carolina Torres 16 Mar 2016

New law banning mining in Colombia’s moorlands could draw its first lawsuit

Ruxandra Guidi 15 Mar 2016

BNDES has long history of loans to gigantic construction companies

Sue Branford 14 Mar 2016

Gold mining in Venezuela: a “perfect storm” of illegality, deforestation and mafias

Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres 11 Mar 2016

Want to end illegal fishing? Make all ships trackable, say researchers

Mongabay.com 11 Mar 2016

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