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Scientists describe three new frog species from Peruvian Andes

Kristine Sabillo 10 Jul 2025
Top tools to protect rainforests | Against All Odds

From apps to Indigenous guardians: Ways we can save rainforests

Mongabay.com 8 Jul 2025
Climbers climb 40 meters in height to extract the waters from the palm trees. Image by Esperanza Natural Forest Management Association

Peru’s Indigenous aguaje harvesters turn to sustainability, but challenges remain

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2025
Banner image of buildings in New York, U.S., by Dietmar Rabich via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds

Kristine Sabillo 30 Jun 2025
An oil pipeline through Wampis territory in the Amazonas department. Image by Jacob Balzani.

Banks bet big on fossil fuels, boosting financing in 2024, report finds

John Cannon 30 Jun 2025

Nicaragua government tied to illegal land invasions in wildlife refuge, documents suggest

Maxwell Radwin 26 Jun 2025
Person kneeling in gold mine extraction site

Organized crime & gold trade are increasingly connected, report shows

Fernanda Wenzel 25 Jun 2025
Workers prep poultry at the meatpacking company JBS in the Brazilian state of Paraná. Image by Eraldo Peres/Associated Press.

Meatpacking giant JBS debuts on NYSE six months after $5m Trump donation

Shanna Hanbury 25 Jun 2025

Panama boosts protections in the Darién Gap, but deforestation threats still loom

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2025

Protecting the Darién Gap: Interview with Panama national parks director Luis Carles Rudy

Maxwell Radwin 24 Jun 2025

UN calls out Indonesia’s Merauke food estate for displacing Indigenous communities

Hans Nicholas Jong 24 Jun 2025
A river in the Amazon rainforest interior of Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

Half a million hectares of rainforest were saved — in part thanks to journalism

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Jun 2025
Illegal gold mining inside the Munduruku and Sai Cinza Indigenous Lands

Nine takeaways on Brazil’s crackdown on illegal mining in Munduruku lands

Aimee Gabay 23 Jun 2025
The community-based management of Pirarucu (Arapaima gigas), a once-endangered fish whose populations have recovered by more than 600% after decades of overexploitation by commercial fisheries. The programme consists of zoning floodplain lakes into ‘reserves’ and ‘harvest’ areas. The programme has not only stabilised populations but led to an increase in the harvest as the mean size of captured fish has increased by almost 50% over the last two decades. Credit: Bernardo Oliveira / Instituto Juruá

In the Brazilian Amazon, sustainability policies clash with development goals

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Jun 2025
British journalist Dom Phillips on a 2022 trip to the Brazilian Amazon.

Finishing Dom Phillips’ posthumous book was ‘the hardest thing emotionally’ co-authors say

Karla Mendes 18 Jun 2025
Amazon rainforest. Credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal under fire as Amazon prosecutors seek repeal

Carla Ruas 17 Jun 2025

Wildfires push tropical forest loss in Latin America to record highs

Mie Hoejris Dahl 17 Jun 2025
Munduruku people from the Sawré Muybu village gather in an assembly to receive feedback from Fiocruz on the hair sample test results determining levels of mercury contamination in people. Image by Joao Paulo Guimaeres via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

After crackdown on illegal miners, Indigenous Munduruku still grapple with health aftermath

Karla Mendes, Fernanda Wenzel 16 Jun 2025
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Chinese President Xi Jinping greeted each other during a recent meeting where the two countries discussed the proposed Bioceanic railway. Image courtesy of Ricardo Stuckert/PR

Brazil & China megarailway raises deforestation warnings in the Amazon

André Schröder 16 Jun 2025

Artificial nests help a rare Brazilian parrot bounce back

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2025

In the Brazilian Amazon, decentralization can be a double-edged sword

Timothy J. Killeen 13 Jun 2025

Pushback grows against nickel mining in Indonesian marine paradise of Raja Ampat

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Jun 2025
Amsterdam, a car plugged into a charging station on a city street

EU appetite for EVs drives new wave of deforestation in tropical forests

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Jun 2025

Strategic planning for development in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Jun 2025
Oil in Amazon

Unnoticed oil & gas threat looms for Indigenous people near Amazon blocks

Fernanda Wenzel 6 Jun 2025
Exploratory oil drilling in the Amazon. Image courtesy of Colin Dunlop.

Why Brazil should abandon its plans for oil and gas in Amazonia (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 5 Jun 2025
Dozens of isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon. Image courtesy of Survival International.

Methods to recognize the Amazon’s isolated peoples: Interview with Antenor Vaz

Aimee Gabay 5 Jun 2025
Greenpeace Brazil conducted an aerial survey in southern Amazonas and northern Rondônia to monitor deforestation and fires in July 2024. Photo © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace.

Climate strikes the Amazon, undermining protection efforts

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Jun 2025
Banner image of a Philippine eagle by Aimee Valencia via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Indigenous forest stewards watch over one of the world’s rarest raptors

Mongabay.com 4 Jun 2025

EUDR risk classifications omit governance & enforcement failures, critics say

Hans Nicholas Jong 3 Jun 2025

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route

André Schröder 2 Jun 2025
Dom Phillips interviewing Mariana Tobias, from the Macuxi people, at the Raposa Serra Do Sol Indigenous Territory, in northern Roraima state, in the Brazilian Amazon. © Nicoló Lanfranchi.

Dom Phillips’ posthumous book centers on collaborative work for saving the Amazon

Karla Mendes 30 May 2025

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