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Study points to which Amazon regions could reach tipping point & dry up

Fernanda Wenzel 29 Feb 2024
A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,

Ecuador, Colombia and the Guiana Shield join the planning of sustainable land use

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Feb 2024

Megafires are spreading in the Amazon — and they are here to stay

Sibélia Zanon and Luis Patriani 22 Feb 2024

Low implementation of land use maps in Andean countries affects conservation outcomes and agricultural productivity

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Feb 2024

Land use planning helps advance conservation in Brazil

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Feb 2024
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Road project promising access to Indigenous Waorani is ushering in deforestation

Aimee Gabay 19 Feb 2024

The creation of settlements in the Ecuadorian Amazon | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Feb 2024
Deforestation for oil palm in East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2016. Photo courtesy of Linus.

Palm oil deforestation makes comeback in Indonesia after decade-long slump

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Feb 2024

Ecuador government weighs delaying closure of controversial ITT oil block

Maxwell Radwin 12 Feb 2024

A particular agrarian reform process in Peru | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 8 Feb 2024

How to achieve the regularization of rural land in private properties in Peru? | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Feb 2024

Harmful mining continues in Nicaragua despite U.S. sanctions, new investigation shows

Maxwell Radwin 5 Feb 2024

Bid to mitigate gold mine’s impact on orangutans hit by stonewalling, data secrecy

Hans Nicholas Jong 2 Feb 2024
A storm in the Bolivian Chaco.

A coalition created by a demand for land is splintered by a competition for territory | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 1 Feb 2024
Wetlands in the San Miguelito area, Bolivia.

How Bolivia pioneered agrarian reform in South America

Timothy J. Killeen 31 Jan 2024
A framed photo of Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

Grassroots efforts and an Emmy-winning film help Indigenous fight in Brazil

Sarah Brown 29 Jan 2024

Climate change made 2023 Amazon drought 30 times more likely, scientists say

Carla Ruas 26 Jan 2024

Lula’s ambitious green agenda runs up against Congress’s agribusiness might

André Schröder 25 Jan 2024

Terra Legal program to regularize small property owners | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Jan 2024

INCRA as a regulatory agency | Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Jan 2024
One of Global Green's new mining sites in Preah Vihear province that sits inside Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected forest. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Sanctioned timber baron wins new mining concessions in Cambodia’s Prey Lang

Gerald Flynn & Phoung Vantha 23 Jan 2024
Researcher Guilherme Cabral

Why the Amazon’s small streams have a major impact on its grand rivers

Letícia Klein/Ambiental Media 18 Jan 2024

Agrarian reform agencies and national land registry systems in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 18 Jan 2024

The dynamics of violence in pursuit of land in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 17 Jan 2024
Fire and deforestation in the Amacro region (the states of Amazonas, Acre and Rondônia) in the Brazilian Amazon in late August 2022. Photo © Nilmar Lage / Greenpeace

Amazonia in flames: Unlearned lessons from the 2023 Manaus smoke crisis (commentary)

Lucas Ferrante, Philip M. Fearnside 17 Jan 2024

Thousands of tree species at risk of extinction in Atlantic Forest: study

Maxwell Radwin 16 Jan 2024
A Kawahiva indigenous man fleetingly caught on film.

Promise of full demarcation for isolated Amazon tribe rings hollow for some

Aimee Gabay 11 Jan 2024

Land in the Pan Amazon, the ultimate commodity: Chapter 4 of “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon”

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Jan 2024

Reversing progress, Indonesia pulp & paper drives up deforestation rates again

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jan 2024

Palm oil giants push out smallholders in Guatemala; deforestation risks remain

Shanna Hanbury 8 Jan 2024

Amazon chocolatiers: Biofactory offers ‘new way of living’ for forest communities

Sarah Brown 2 Jan 2024
Planet satellite images of the confluence of the Rio Negro and Rio Jufari near the border of the states of Amazonas and Roraima in Brazil taken in October 2023, revealing sandbars and exposed riverbed during the severe drought that affected large parts of the Amazon rainforest. Photo courtesy of Planet Labs.

The year in rainforests: 2023

Rhett A. Butler 29 Dec 2023

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