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Colombia’s coffee industry well placed but wary as EU deforestation rule looms

Mie Hoejris Dahl 4 Mar 2026
Residents transport drinking water along the dry Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon River, during the dry season, in 2024. Image by AP Photo/Edmar Barros.

Falling Amazon river flows trigger reality check at Belo Monte power plant

Rafael Spuldar 4 Mar 2026

No grid, no problem: How Amazon communities built their own power systems

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Mar 2026
A fisherman is silhouetted as he casts his net into the Tapajos River in Santarem, Para state, 2020.

Concern among Indigenous leaders, relief for a few, as Amazon Soy Moratorium falters

Rubens Valente 3 Mar 2026

China’s Pacific squid fishery rife with labor, fishing abuses: Report

Francesco De Augustinis 3 Mar 2026
Royal flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus). Photo by Mileniusz Spanowicz / WCS.

Birds are changing — and Indigenous memory is the longest record we have

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Mar 2026
Shark fins seized during the police raid. Image courtesy of Brazilian Federal Police.

Brazilian police seize more than 1.5 metric tons of shark fins

Shanna Hanbury, Karla Mendes 3 Mar 2026

Search for Brazil flood survivors continues as death toll rises to 64

Associated Press 2 Mar 2026
A Yanomami infant intubated at the Santo Antônio children’s hospital in Boa Vista, Roraima. Image courtesy of Emmily Melo/Hutukara Associação Yanomami.

Five Yanomami infants in Brazil die amid whooping cough outbreak

Shanna Hanbury 27 Feb 2026
A judge watches a cockfight in Peru.

How cockfighting imperils Peru’s critically endangered sawfish

Mongabay.com 27 Feb 2026
Emergent tree in the Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Climate change drives uneven shifts in tree diversity across Amazon and Andes

Constance Malleret 27 Feb 2026
Photos from Macron's official visit to Lula in 2024 sparked memes for their resemblance to a “pre-wedding photo shoot.”

Brazil wanted more protections for its endangered national tree. Then France called

Fernanda Wenzel, Spoorthy Raman, Emmanuelle Picaud 27 Feb 2026
UC Santa Cruz researcher in Hazmat suit taking nasal sample from elephant seal pup, Ano Nuevo State Park, California, USA.

Avian flu strikes California’s northern elephant seals; area quarantined

Christine Heinrichs 27 Feb 2026
Fresh shark meat is sold as cação at street markets in Rio de Janeiro. Image by Karla Mendes/Mongabay.

Mongabay shark meat exposé wins national journalism education award in Brazil

Mongabay.com 26 Feb 2026

Photos: In the Colombian Amazon, fishing binds a community to river and forest

Aimee Gabay 26 Feb 2026
Two black brown colored roosters having a cockfight.

Cockfights might knockout Peru’s rarest fish?

Romi Castagnino 26 Feb 2026
Demonstrators in Santarém, Pará state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Amazon Watch.

Brazil revokes decree privatizing three Amazonian rivers after Indigenous protests

Shanna Hanbury 26 Feb 2026

Agroforestry offers market-based way to boost Amazon rains & farmer incomes (analysis)

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Feb 2026

Floods ravage southeastern Brazil and kill 40 as rescuers race to find dozens missing

Associated Press 25 Feb 2026
Representatives from AL-INVEST Verde visit coffee plantations in Minas Gerais.

In Brazil, a free platform uses government data to track EUDR compliance

Constance Malleret 25 Feb 2026
Collage featuring cockfighting and a largetooth sawfish

Why is cockfighting a risk to Peru’s rarest fish?

Romi Castagnino 25 Feb 2026
A captive sand cat in Nushi, Pakistan. Illegal trade is occurring amid a paucity of information about population sizes of small cat populations, says Sheikh. “It's going under the radar to a big extent, and hardly anything is being done to actively stop it or to mitigate this threat.”

Big cats get the press, but small wildcats are being poached and trafficked in silence

Sean Mowbray 25 Feb 2026
Fisherfolk at Lourenção Rocks on the Amazon’s Tocantins River.

Amazon riverfolk warn blasting rocks for shipping route will kill fisheries

Tiffany Higgins 25 Feb 2026

Bringing Mongabay’s Amazon narco airstrip exposé to the stage

Mike DiGirolamo 24 Feb 2026

Indigenous leader assassinated in Colombia’s Caldas department

Aimee Gabay 24 Feb 2026
Rosolie documenting the destruction of the Amazon for social media.

A journey from student to Amazon “Junglekeeper”: Interview with Paul Rosolie

Jeremy Hance 23 Feb 2026

The cost of compliance with the EUDR will limit its impact on reducing deforestation (commentary)

Bjørn Rask Thomsen, Daniel Nepstad 23 Feb 2026
Jose-Albino-Canas-Ramirez. From Facebook

José Albino Cañas Ramírez, a defender of Indigenous territories, aged 44

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Feb 2026

Giant tortoises return to Galápagos island 180 years after relatives went extinct

Bobby Bascomb 20 Feb 2026

How seabird poop helped fuel ancient civilizations in Peru

David Brown 19 Feb 2026

Argentina considers weakening glacier safeguards in pursuit of critical minerals

Maxwell Radwin 19 Feb 2026
Rain over the Amazon. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

The Amazon’s most valuable export isn’t timber — it’s rain

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Feb 2026

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