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JBS broke its own rules while buying cattle from deforested areas in Pantanal

Naira Hofmeister and Fernanda Wenzel 31 Oct 2024
Tikuna man fishing in Colombia

Colombia decree recognizes Indigenous people as environmental authorities

Aimee Gabay 30 Oct 2024

Brazil minister rejects EU deforestation law despite postponement plans

Shanna Hanbury 29 Oct 2024

Brazil’s native seed collector networks drive wider social change, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 29 Oct 2024
Banner image of Turkana women from Kenya by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Women-led groups remain ‘severely underfunded’ for climate action: Report

Kristine Sabillo 29 Oct 2024

Six months after its worst floods, Rio Grande do Sul works to bounce back

Shi En Kim 28 Oct 2024

Trial begins in U.K. for victims of Minas Gerais dam disaster

Maxwell Radwin 28 Oct 2024
The First Environmental Court’s inspection of the Tilopozo wetlands, and the La Punta and La Brava lagoon systems, among others.

Chilean Indigenous association participates in key study for lawsuit against mining

Barinia Montoya 28 Oct 2024

Debate over Chile’s fisheries law exposes industry influence on fish management

Francisco Velásquez 25 Oct 2024
Flooded forest, Peruvian Amazon. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Carbon markets must recognize Indigenous ‘high forest, low deforestation’ areas (commentary)

Fermin Chimatani Tayori and Onel Masardule 24 Oct 2024

Study: REDD+ doesn’t work without Indigenous peoples, but fails to engage them

Sarah Brown 24 Oct 2024

Impacts and legacies of migration across the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 24 Oct 2024

Mining and logging threaten Bolivia’s newest protected area

Iván Paredes Tamayo 24 Oct 2024

Dam terrorism: How mining companies in Brazil scare residents into relocating

Evanildo da Silveira 24 Oct 2024

Studies identify microplastics contamination along entire Brazilian coastline

Luís Patriani 23 Oct 2024

China’s Pacific fleet reportedly using squid ship as hospital to evade scrutiny

Yvette Sierra Praeli 23 Oct 2024
Santa Marta's traditional medicine doctors Mauricio Martínez, Elicia Martínez and Viviana Montero stand among a plot of land containing curative plants.

The Panamanian shamans working to save their ancestral medicinal plants

Adam D. Williams 22 Oct 2024

In Costa Rica, sustainable tourism is no longer enough for conservation

Michele Bertelli 21 Oct 2024

Deforestation plunges but environmental threats remain as Colombia hosts COP16

Lucas Berti 21 Oct 2024

At Mexico’s school for jaguars, big cats learn skills to return to the wild

Juan Mayorga 21 Oct 2024
Lemur tree frog (Agalychnis lemur) in Colombia's Chocó rainforest.

Experts map biodiversity richness on Afro-descendent peoples’ lands

Aimee Gabay 21 Oct 2024

Extreme drought wrecks rivers and daily life in Amazon’s most burnt Indigenous land

João Paulo Guimarães 18 Oct 2024

Rural-urban migration across the Amazon Basin

Timothy J. Killeen 18 Oct 2024

Fishers & scientists unite to restore seaweed populations on Chilean coast

Barinia Montoya 18 Oct 2024

Scientists discover new hammerhead shark species — and it’s already at risk

Shanna Hanbury 18 Oct 2024
Canopy coverage over a coffee farm in Los Farallones de Cali, Colombia. Image by Alex Reep for Mongabay.

At COP16, conservationists will be neighbors with the legacy of fortress conservation (commentary)

Alex Reep, Charlotte Sangouard 18 Oct 2024

Amazon voters elect environmental offenders and climate denialists in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Oct 2024

Wildlife populations have shrunk by 73% in 50 years: Report

Bobby Bascomb 16 Oct 2024
Ingrid Sateré Mawé

Brazil elects record-high number of Indigenous mayors, vice mayors & councilors

Karla Mendes 16 Oct 2024
Pantanal fire. Image courtesy of Gustavo Figueiroa.

Act now or lose the Pantanal forever (commentary)

Steve Trent 15 Oct 2024
Fishers from the community of Iguaiba, in the Alcântara Quilombo.

Delays in land titling threaten the conservation success of quilombos in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 15 Oct 2024

Brazil upgrades park to protect Amazon’s tallest tree, allows tourism

Shanna Hanbury 14 Oct 2024

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