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Traditional bug oil finds modern value through new research in the Amazon

Sarah Brown 13 May 2025
Amazon people in the BR-163 area, such as Mariana, face challenges from the economic model imposed by agribusiness, logging and gold mining. Image by Fernando Martinho.

Lack of funds, cattle ranchers challenge Brazil’s sustainable farmers

Mongabay.com 13 May 2025
Brazilian Indigenous lawyer Kari Guajajara. Image by USAID via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

‘We can’t talk solutions without understanding complexities: Kari Guajajara on Brazil’s Amazon

Latoya Abulu 12 May 2025

A rare jaguar rewilding story highlights obstacles to the big cat’s conservation in Brazil

Suzana Camargo 12 May 2025
Aftermath of the Mariana Dam collapse in Minas Gerais.

Report urges stricter mining standards to manage climate and social impacts

Aimee Gabay 9 May 2025
Brazil nuts sold by COOBÂ-Y, a member organization of Rede Origens Brasil, a network that connects Amazon producers with companies and consumers. Photo by Amanda Magnani.

What does bioeconomy truly mean? Indigenous groups seek answer to dodge capitalist traps

Amanda Magnani 8 May 2025
Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae) is endemic to Madagascar. Image courtesy of Matthias Markolf.

Top 25 most threatened primates highlighted in new report urging action

Malavika Vyawahare 8 May 2025

Illegal wood from Colombia’s rainforests enters US and EU supply chains

Mie Hoejris Dahl 6 May 2025

‘Puma detectives’ highlight wildlife where Brazil’s Cerrado meets the Atlantic Forest

Letícia Klein 5 May 2025
A young river dweller docks on the bank of the Madeira River in the late afternoon, near the town of Borba, Amazonas. Image by Bruno Kelly.

Amazon people brace for a drier future along the endangered Madeira River

Kevin Damasio 5 May 2025
Marielle Ramires from Instagram

Marielle Ramires, Brazilian activist and environmental communicator, died on April 29th, aged 45.

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 May 2025

In the Pan Amazon, regulators struggle to punish environmental crimes

Timothy J. Killeen 2 May 2025
An Inga leader from the Yunguillo reserve, José Homero Mutumbajoy is the human rights and peace coordinator for OPIAC. Image courtesy of José Homero Mutumbajoy.

‘Colombia’s Amazon peoples provide solutions’: Interview with José Homero Mutumbajoy

Latoya Abulu 1 May 2025
A Shipibo leader from Madre de Dios, Cusurichi Palacios serves on the national board of AIDESEP, a large organization representing more than 2,400 Indigenous communities in Peru.

The latest issues in Peru’s Amazon: Interview with Indigenous leader Julio Cusurichi

Latoya Abulu 1 May 2025
A tiger-legged monkey tree frog in Peruvian Amazon.

New report reinforces critical role of Amazonian protected areas in climate fight

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 May 2025
Located in the Amapá state, the second-largest red angelim ever found is 85.4 meters (280 feet) tall and has a circumference of 9.8 meters (32 feet). Image courtesy of João de Matos Filho / Prodemac.

Gold rush moves closer to Amazon’s second-tallest tree

Mongabay.com 1 May 2025

Abel Rodríguez, artist who drew a vanishing forest from memory, died April 9, age unknown

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 May 2025
Jaguar siblings in Poconé, Brazil. Image by Bernard Dupont via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Study suggests there are more jaguars in the Amazon than previously thought

Shanna Hanbury 1 May 2025
A towering tailings pile sits directly behind a residence in Poço Dantas. Image by Rebeca Binda.

In Brazil’s Jequitinhonha valley, communities share how to reduce lithium mining impacts

Amanda Magnani, Rebeca Binda 30 Apr 2025
eucalyptus forest

Eucalyptus for Brazil’s steelmaking dries out communities in Minas Gerais

Daniel Camargos, Emmanuelle Picaud, Simone Fant 29 Apr 2025
Pará Governor Helder Barbalho celebrates after signing the deal with the LEAF Coalition of corporations at New York Climate Week in September 2024. Image courtesy of SEMAS.

Brazil prosecutors dispute $175m Amazon Rainforest carbon credit deal

Shanna Hanbury 29 Apr 2025
Voluntarily isolated people in the Javari Valley in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo credit: FUNAI.

Indigenous delegates at the U.N. raise alarm on isolated peoples in the Amazon

Aimee Gabay 25 Apr 2025
Members of the international study team pull a peat core from a wetland in the Colombian Amazon.

New research finds substantial peat deposits in Colombia’s conflicted Amazon

Erik Iverson 23 Apr 2025

Building environmental laws across Amazon countries

Timothy J. Killeen 23 Apr 2025
Federal forces have been expelling illegal gold miners from protected areas like the Munduruku Indigenous Territory in Pará state. Image courtesy of the Federal Police. 

Amazon illegal miners bypass enforcement by smuggling gold into Venezuela

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Apr 2025
Auyán-Tepuí in Venezuela. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

In the shadow of Angel Falls: How Auyán-Tepuí sparked my reverence for nature

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Apr 2025
A part of Putumayo rainforest showing areas of deforestation.

Armed groups, cattle ranchers drove 35% rise in Colombia’s deforestation in 2024

Antonio José Paz Cardona 18 Apr 2025
The pied tamarin (Saguinus bicolor) is one of the world’s most endangered monkeys. Image courtesy of Diogo Lagroteria.

New refuge helps protect Amazon’s most endangered monkey, but gaps remain

Shanna Hanbury 18 Apr 2025

Ecuador communities resist Canada-backed gold mine in sacred highlands

Aimee Gabay, Sonam Lama Hyolmo 17 Apr 2025
A flamingo in Salar de Uyuni, southwestern Bolivia.

Bolivian communities push back against foreign-backed lithium projects

Carla Ruas 17 Apr 2025
The Cuyaba dwarf frog (Physalaemus nattereri) inflating its rear end to scare away predators. Image courtesy of Felipe Bittioli.

Most frogs in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands to lose habitat by 2100: Study

Shanna Hanbury 17 Apr 2025

Still no trial over Argentina cyanide mine spill, 7 years after officials were charged

Aimee Gabay 16 Apr 2025

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