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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

Peru mining pollution linked to children’s cognitive impairment: Study

Aimee Gabay 18 Feb 2026
Community members take part in the installation of solar panels in the Porto Rico community, in the Brazilian Amazon.

Amazon villages build autonomous energy systems after mega-dam failed pledges

Jorge C. Carrasco 18 Feb 2026

In Ecuador’s Chocó, roads shape the fate of the rainforest

Maxwell Radwin 18 Feb 2026
Highway BR-163 stretches between the Tapajos National Forest, left, and a soy field in Belterra, Para state, Brazil. Highway BR-163, built during the military dictatorship in the 1970s, connects areas of strong support for former President Jair Bolsonaro, who lost October's election. Image by AP Photo/Leo Correa.

Banks must step in before the Amazon Soy Moratorium collapses (commentary)

Ginger Cassady 18 Feb 2026

Researchers eye jaguar conservation wins under Brazil Indigenous stewardship project

James Hall, Karla Mendes 18 Feb 2026
Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Amazon deforestation on pace to be the lowest on record, says Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Feb 2026
A Pirahã family floating on a river, 2017.

Malaria outbreak among Indigenous Pirahã linked to forest loss, satellite data find

Aimee Gabay 17 Feb 2026
Satellite image of the eastern part of the Cape York Peninsula in Australia. Courtesy of Earthstar Geographics SIO / Microsoft maps

Scientists can’t agree on where the world’s forests are

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Feb 2026
Urania leilus (Uraniidae)

That “butterfly” you saw? It was probably a moth

Romi Castagnino 17 Feb 2026

Seven years after Brazil’s worst dam disaster, mining operations bounce back

Felipe S. Duran, Mylena Melo 16 Feb 2026
The bug that makes bubbles with its butt: Froghopper

The bug that makes bubbles with its butt: Froghopper

Romi Castagnino 13 Feb 2026
Dams limited the natural flow of the Madeira River, disrupting the currents that fish need and causing up to a 90% reduction in stocks in some locations. Image by Kelvily Santos de Souza for Mongabay.

Fishers denounce plummeting fish stocks following Amazon hydroelectric dam

Mongabay.com 12 Feb 2026

Guanacos’ return to Gran Chaco restirs debate around wildlife translocations

Mark Hillsdon 12 Feb 2026
Cattle stand near a wooded area smoldering in the Alvorada da Amazonia region in Novo Progresso, Para state.

Brazil gov’t builds map to help exporters comply with EU anti-deforestation rule

Karla Mendes 12 Feb 2026

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