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The fuel that moves people: the Ecuadorian case

Timothy J. Killeen 20 Dec 2024

Brazil’s illegal gold miners carve out new Amazon hotspots in conservation units

Fernanda Wenzel 20 Dec 2024

Amazon’s Boiling River gives scientists a window into the rainforest’s future

Liz Kimbrough 20 Dec 2024

As lithium mining bleeds Atacama salt flat dry, Indigenous communities hit back

Barinia Montoya 20 Dec 2024

Unlike: Brazil Facebook groups give poachers safe space to flex their kills

Adele Santelli 19 Dec 2024
Wampis children in the shallows of a river. Image by Jacob Balzani.

Most large banks failing to consider Indigenous rights

Aimee Gabay 19 Dec 2024

New frog species show how geology shapes Amazon’s biodiversity

Sibélia Zanon 19 Dec 2024

Even for ‘progressive’ Danone, complying with EUDR is a challenge

Maxwell Radwin 19 Dec 2024

Brazil passes law to cap emissions and regulate carbon market

Shanna Hanbury 16 Dec 2024

Grassroots efforts sprout up to protect Central America’s Trifinio watershed

Maxwell Radwin 16 Dec 2024
Amazon Rainforest

Brazil paper and pulp industry invests in blockchain to comply with EUDR

Karla Mendes 16 Dec 2024

High-flying concessions: Clandestine airstrips, coca crops invade Ucayali’s forests

Mongabay Latam 16 Dec 2024
Timber illegally extracted from the Amazon by Ricardo Stoppe's group was sold to the USA and Europe.

Illegal timber from Amazon carbon credit projects reached Europe, U.S.

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Dec 2024
The illegal trade is still one of the greatest threats to hawksbills, according to the April 2020 Global Tortoiseshell Report.

Illegal cockfighting threatens endangered sea turtles across Central America

Tina Deines 13 Dec 2024

Recycling gold can tackle illegal mining in the Amazon, but is no silver bullet

Sarah Brown 13 Dec 2024

Foreign investor lawsuits impede Honduras human rights & environment protections

Sarah Brown 12 Dec 2024

Water returns to Amazon rivers amid historic drought

Shanna Hanbury 12 Dec 2024

Peru’s modern history of migration and settlement

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Dec 2024

Communities warn of threat to ecosystems from Brazil bridge project

Lobato Felizola 12 Dec 2024

Andes glacier melt threatens Amazon’s rivers & intensifies droughts

Amanda Magnani 11 Dec 2024

Narco airstrips beset Indigenous communities in Peruvian Amazon

Mongabay Latam 9 Dec 2024

Loggers and carbon projects forge odd partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2024

‘Bear’s-eye camera’ reveals elusive Andean bear cannibalism and treetop mating

Liz Kimbrough 6 Dec 2024

The uncertain future of Amazon river dolphins amid historic drought

Mayala Fernandes 6 Dec 2024
A Shipibo woman does the Shipibo-Conibo traditional embroitery art.

Gaps in Peru’s peatland policies harm conservation and Indigenous Shipibo: Study

Aimee Gabay 5 Dec 2024

Bolivia’s internal colonization and its March to the East

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Dec 2024

Pesticide exposure drives up rural women’s cancer risk in Brazil farming belt

Mayala Fernandes 5 Dec 2024

In Chile, discovery of shallowest red hydrocoral forest yet surprises scientists

Rocío González Trujillo 5 Dec 2024

Certified ethanol produced in Brazil for global airlines linked to slave labor

Poliana Dallabrida from Repórter Brasil 5 Dec 2024

Severe drought in Peruvian Amazon isolated more than 130 Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 5 Dec 2024
Fishing boats in Chimbote, Peru.

Traditional fishers in Peru guard the coast from illegal fishing

Leslie Moreno Custodio 5 Dec 2024

Amazon Airstrips

Mongabay Latam 4 Dec 2024

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