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Peru’s ronderos: Persecution of the Marañón patrolmen

Veronica Goyzueta 20 Jul 2015

Will Sierra del Divisor soon become Peru’s newest national park?

John Cannon 16 Jul 2015

Satellites spot deforestation in almost-approved Peruvian national park

John Cannon 16 Jul 2015

Jhuliño’s legacy: Life and death on the Marañon River (photo essay)

Saul Elbein 16 Jul 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

Moratoria beat certification to reduce deforestation for soy, palm oil, cattle

Sean Mowbray 14 Jul 2015

Mega-dams doing drastic harm to tropical biodiversity: study

Mike Gaworecki 13 Jul 2015

Pope apologizes for church’s crimes against indigenous people

Mongabay.com 10 Jul 2015

Colombian reserve gets big expansion

Apoorva Joshi 10 Jul 2015

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

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jul 2015

Brazilian police and scientists team up to crack down on illegal timber trade

Jonathan Mason 1 Jul 2015

Dilma disappoints with weak rainforest target

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jun 2015

Palm oil plantations used to ‘reforest’ parts of Brazil despite being wildlife deserts

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 30 Jun 2015

Into the great unknown: The ability of global forests to store carbon is at risk

Julian Smith 30 Jun 2015

Corporations rush to make zero-deforestation commitments, but is it working?

Julian Smith 29 Jun 2015

New reserve in Peru will protect nearly a million acres of pristine forest

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Jun 2015

Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2015

Social-media firestorm defends popular man-eating tiger in India, raising conservation questions

Apoorva Joshi 23 Jun 2015

Norway, Colombia target partnership to save rainforests

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Jun 2015

Has Amazon deforestation reached a 7-year high in Brazil?

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Jun 2015

It can be done! – Building better dams in the Andean Amazon

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 18 Jun 2015

Gold miners invade Amazonian indigenous reserve

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jun 2015

Bolivia opens protected areas to oil companies

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2015

Rainforest parks cut malaria transmission

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Jun 2015

90% of Amazon deforestation occurs outside protected areas

Rhett Ayers Butler 13 Jun 2015

Inside The Toxic Tour: Not for prime-time Ecuador (PHOTOS)

Bill Hinchberger 12 Jun 2015

Tapajós and other Amazon dams not sustainable development say reports

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jun 2015

151 dams could be catastrophic to Amazon ecological connectivity

Anjali Kumar, Liz Kimbrough 10 Jun 2015

Satellite images provide new view of uncontacted Amazonian communities

William Freedberg 10 Jun 2015

New fund helps groups buy land quickly to protect threatened wildlife

Mike Gaworecki 9 Jun 2015

Bolivia’s aggressive agricultural development plans threaten forests

Alexandra Ellerbeck 8 Jun 2015

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