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The Amazon in 2026: A challenging year ahead, now off the center stage

Alexandre de Santi 22 Dec 2025
Mongabay contributor Glòria Pallarès won the ACE Award in Doha, Qatar. Image courtesy of the ACE Award.

Mongabay contributor Glòria Pallarès wins top anti-corruption reporting award

Mongabay.com 22 Dec 2025

The first amphibian to halt a hydroelectric dam now takes on the climate crisis

Thamys Trindade 22 Dec 2025

In the Amazon, law enforcement against environmental crime remains controversial

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Dec 2025

All new roads lead to increased deforestation in Ecuador’s Indigenous territory

Ana Cristina Alvarado 19 Dec 2025
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

In Brazil, a new label gives more visibility to deforestation-free beef

Constance Malleret 18 Dec 2025

Rio Doce communities still live with toxic water, 10 years after Mariana disaster

Ramana Rech 17 Dec 2025

In Peru, community-led camera trapping boosts conservation and ecotourism

Astrid Arellano 16 Dec 2025
Ocelot in Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas, Brazil.

New study points to private land as key to Atlantic Forest recovery

Sibélia Zanon 16 Dec 2025
The Manacapuru terminal was built on an erosion-prone riverbank along a bend of the Solimões River, where the risk of land collapse is higher, especially when human interventions alter the terrain.

Collapses of Amazon riverbanks threaten communities and shipping routes

André Schröder 15 Dec 2025

In the Amazon, lack of transparency and corruption undermine the environment

Timothy J. Killeen 15 Dec 2025
A juvenile white sturgeon in Canada.

With a target on their bellies, can California’s sturgeon survive?

Laurel Neme 10 Dec 2025

Stricter rules adopted to protect sloths from pet trade and selfie tourism

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2025
A soy plantation borders native Cerrado vegetation, highlighting pressures on Brazil’s ecosystems and the need for community-led bioeconomy alternatives.

New financial tools boost traditional bioeconomy projects in the Amazon

Sarah Brown 8 Dec 2025

In Chocó, river defenders say race for energy transition threatens lifelines

Euan Wallace 8 Dec 2025

Across Latin America populist regimes challenge nature conservation goals

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Dec 2025

To save jaguars from extinction, scientists in Brazil are trying IVF and cloning

Letícia Klein 5 Dec 2025

Scientists push for greater climate role for Latin America’s overlooked ecosystems

Antonio José Paz Cardona 4 Dec 2025

The Indigenous women changing the course of their communities

Astrid Arellano 4 Dec 2025
Malocas (traditional longhouses) of Indigenous communities in isolation on the Peru-Brazil border. Image by ORPIO.

Respecting uncontacted peoples can protect biodiversity and our humanity (commentary)

Kerry Bowman 3 Dec 2025

Loma Santa marks first Indigenous protected area in the Bolivian Amazon

Iván Paredes Tamayo 3 Dec 2025
Andean condor flying

Artificial incubation gives Colombia’s threatened Andean condor a new lifeline

Christina Noriega 2 Dec 2025

Peru’s Río Abiseo park yields new marsupial, hinting at more undiscovered species

Yvette Sierra Praeli 2 Dec 2025

In Ecuador’s Yasuní, cameras reveal the wild neighbors visitors rarely see

Ana Cristina Alvarado 2 Dec 2025
Jaguars in Mexico. Image courtesy of Andrea Reyes/Jaguars in the Wild Foundation.

International Jaguar Day: A year of wins for the big cat

Mongabay.com 2 Dec 2025

Indigenous knowledge and science join forces to save the choro mussel in Chile

Barinia Montoya 1 Dec 2025

In Guyana and Suriname, offshore oil and environmental interests clash

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Dec 2025

The valuable peatlands of Peru’s Pastaza River Fan: one of the world’s largest carbon reservoirs

Leslie Moreno Custodio 1 Dec 2025
Stingless bees in a box hive at the headquarters of Embrapa’s Eastern Amazon office.

Amazon’s stingless bee propolis shows potent healing power, studies show

Lucas Berti 1 Dec 2025

Indigenous guardians protecting the Amazon Trapeze continue to face challenges

César Giraldo 28 Nov 2025

Afro-descendant territories slash deforestation, lock in carbon, study shows

Gonzalo Ortuño López 28 Nov 2025

New agreement aims to streamline Amazon Rainforest protection efforts

Abhishyant Kidangoor 27 Nov 2025

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