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Brazil’s race to approve the end of the Amazon: The BR-319 highway needs a new environmental impact assessment (commentary)

‘We need white men on our side to save the Amazon from destruction,’ 92-year-old Indigenous Chief Raoni says

US consumers may be exposed to deforestation-linked palm oil via dairy: Report

New approach to land management in Africa aims to climate-proof ecosystems

Permits granted for Colombia’s Alacrán mine amid pollution, deforestation concerns

World’s biggest deforestation project gets underway in Papua for sugarcane

Sierra Leone group helps farmers adapt to changing climate, protect forest

Report exposes meatpackers’ role in recent chemical deforestation in Brazil

How the Brazilian military sabotaged protection of Indigenous people in the Amazon

Honduras taps armed forces to eliminate deforestation by 2029. Will it work?

Extreme drought pushes Amazon’s main rivers to lowest-ever levels

Wildlife busts in Malaysia’s Taman Negara show progress, and gaps, in enforcement

Resilient and resourceful, Brazil’s illegal gold capital resists government crackdown

Drought forces Amazon Indigenous communities to drink mercury-tainted water

Nearly all Brazilian gold imported by EU is likely illegal, report says

Indonesia’s Farwiza Farhan among Ramon Magsaysay awardees for protecting Leuser Ecosystem

Brazil launches ‘war’ on widespread fire outbreaks & criminal arsonists

World’s top timber companies are dropping the ball on ESG reporting: Analysis

Study shows most Amazon beef & soy demand comes from Brazil — not exports

Acre’s communities face drinking water shortage amid Amazon drought

Deal ends environmental agents’ strike in Brazil, but grievances fester

Sumatran province brings hammer down on illegal oil wells after fatal blasts

Communities fend off attacks as officials study Brazil’s anti-Indigenous land rights bill

Forest degradation releases 5 times more Amazon carbon than deforestation: Study

Amazon Fraud 101: How timber credits mask illegal logging in Brazil

Indonesia palm oil lobby pushes 1 million hectares of new Sulawesi plantations

New datasets identify which crops deforest the Amazon, and where

Hydropower plants disrupt fishers’ lives in Amazon’s most biodiverse river basin

Are the Amazon’s biggest trees dying? Forest coroners investigate

Activists ask for help combatting violence against Nicaragua’s Indigenous communities

Gold mining in the Amazon has doubled in area since 2018, AI tool shows

To host 2025 climate summit, Brazil will carve up an Amazonian reserve

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