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Marina Silva, Brazil's Minister of the Environment and Climate Change (left), Fernando Haddad, Brazil's Minister of Finance (center), and Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sônia Guajajara (right) during a press conference on the Tropical Forest Forever Fund (TFFF). Image courtesy of Rafa Neddermeyer/COP30 Brasil Amazônia/PR.

Brazil’s forest fund faces a slow takeoff at COP30 despite initial support

Carla Ruas 24 Nov 2025

Why are Amazonian trees getting ‘fatter’?

Suzana Camargo 24 Nov 2025
A forest fire in August 2025 in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace.

Weather disasters are surging in the Amazon. Reporting isn’t.

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Nov 2025

Abrolhos: A South Atlantic marine treasure in need of protection

Elizabeth Oliveira 24 Nov 2025
Illegal air strips identified during the investigation.

Mongabay Latam wins the Global Shining Light Award for investigative journalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Nov 2025
Vicente Fernandes Vilhalva. Photo courtesy of Aty Guasu/Survival International

A killing with precedent: Kaiowá man’s murder fits a pattern in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Nov 2025

Brazil’s governance style leads to controversial impacts

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Nov 2025
Delegates listen to Brazilian President Lula deliver the opening speech of the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit in Belém, Thursday, Nov. 6. Image by AP Photo/Eraldo Peres.

It’s time to end the carbon offset era, COP30 scientists & communities say (commentary)

Tom Picken 21 Nov 2025

IDB financed meat & poultry company that polluted Indigenous Ecuador lands: Report

Ana Cristina Alvarado 21 Nov 2025
Pokigron and Atjoni villages beside the Suriname River. Image courtesy of Wikimedia.

Why don’t forest protectors get paid? asks Suriname’s president

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Nov 2025
Banzeiro da Easperanza in Belem. Photo by Lucas Boony

A forest worth more standing: Virgilio Viana on what it will take to protect the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Nov 2025

Reporting from a land war

Julia Lemos Lima 20 Nov 2025

The land deal threatening a vital piece of Bolivia’s Chiquitano dry forest

Maxwell Radwin 20 Nov 2025

With COP30, Indigenous Brazilians strive for new resources to protect nature

Sara Baptista 20 Nov 2025
Environmentalists say traffic from large vessels could affect the migration and reproduction of Amazonian turtles in the Monte Cristo tabuleiro, one of the largest turtle sanctuaries in Brazil. Image courtesy of Roberto Lacava/Ibama.

Amazon Indigenous groups fight soy waterway as Brazil fast-tracks dredging

André Schröder 19 Nov 2025
Banner image: Adult male peregrine (F. p. brookei) in Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India. Peregrine falcons almost disappeared across North America and Europe in the early 1900s because of DDT and other pesticides.

Scientists slam Canada-US proposal to lower trade protections for peregrine falcons

Spoorthy Raman 18 Nov 2025
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In Mexico, world’s smallest turtle faces big threats from trafficking, habitat loss

Sandra Weiss 18 Nov 2025
Tropical forest and river in Suriname. Image courtesy of Mark J. Plotkin.

Top ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin’s COP30 reflections on Amazon conservation (analysis)

Mark J. Plotkin 17 Nov 2025

As fires flare in Brazil’s Cerrado, heat-resistant seeds offer restoration lifeline

Simone Machado 17 Nov 2025

Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence

Liz Kimbrough 13 Nov 2025
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is in an arm wrestling match with environmental agents to unlock oil extraction on the Amazon North shore. Image by Ricardo Stuckert/PR.

Strategic ignorance, climate change and Amazonia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 13 Nov 2025

Ecuador freezes bank accounts of Indigenous leaders, land defenders

Kimberley Brown 13 Nov 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Chile’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 13 Nov 2025
Collage: A group of security guards preventing people from crossing a checkpoint and Fernanda Wenzel Mongabay reporter

On the frontline of the Amazon land war

Julia Lima, Fernanda Wenzel, Fernando Martinho 13 Nov 2025
An oil pipeline through Wampis territory in the Amazonas department. Image by Jacob Balzani.

Peru Indigenous patrols see success & struggles in combating illegal miners

Aimee Gabay 12 Nov 2025

Soy giants quietly prepare for EU deforestation law; impacts still uncertain

Marina Martinez 12 Nov 2025
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In the Amazon, political systems fail to prioritize the environment

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Nov 2025
The Javari river forms the border between Brazil and Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How a ‘green gold rush’ in the Amazon led to dubious carbon deals on Indigenous lands

Gloria Pallares 11 Nov 2025

The price of gold: In Venezuela, mining threatens Indigenous Pemón

Catherine Ellis 11 Nov 2025

Chilean pulp giant Arauco’s history of pollution trails it to Brazil biodiversity site

Tainah Ramos 11 Nov 2025
Rainforest, reef, and ocean on Maratua Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Three tracks to rescue 1.5°C: fossil exit, forest protection, and nature’s carbon (commentary)

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho 8 Nov 2025

After 6 years, trial in Indigenous forest guardian killing pushed to 2026

Karla Mendes 7 Nov 2025

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