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Chinese business in the Amazon generates controversy

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Mar 2025
The first Indigenous man from the Mamoriá Grande area to contact non-Indigenous society received medical assistance at a Funai base in early February. Image courtesy of Funai and Sesai (Indigenous Health Secretariat).

Pressure bears down around uncontacted tribes at the edge of Brazil’s arc of deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel 21 Mar 2025

Uncontacted Ayoreo could face health risks as Gran Chaco shrinks, experts warn

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2025

Brazil declares environmental emergency ahead of 2025 fire season

Shanna Hanbury 20 Mar 2025
oil spill river

Colombia’s top oil company concealed environmental damages: Investigation

Mie Hoejris Dahl 20 Mar 2025

Ecuador must improve conditions for uncontacted Indigenous communities, human rights court rules

Maxwell Radwin 20 Mar 2025
Pataxó and Tupinambá people rally against the time frame (marco temporal) law on March 13, 2025, in front of the Brazilian Supreme Court in Brasília. Image courtesy of CIMI.

‘Unprecedented’ Supreme Court bill threatens Indigenous rights in Brazil

Karla Mendes 19 Mar 2025
Oil spill in Ecuador’s northwestern Esmeraldas municipality. Image courtesy of Eduardo Rebolledo Monsalve.

Esmeraldas oil spill in Ecuador devastates rivers and wildlife refuge

Shanna Hanbury 19 Mar 2025

Planned port project threatens protected Amazonian mangrove biodiversity and local livelihoods

Aimee Gabay 19 Mar 2025
Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) near the Tapajós river, next to Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land, home to the Munduruku people, Pará state, Brazil.

Officials share strategies to stop spread of illegal miners from Munduruku land

Aimee Gabay 18 Mar 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.

The rough road to sustainable farming in an Amazon deforestation hotspot

Fernanda Wenzel 17 Mar 2025

Scientists study plant restoration in Argentina’s deserts

Claudia Geib 17 Mar 2025
Winners of 2025 Future For Nature Awards. From left— Anthony Waddle, image by Yorick Lambreghts, Ruthmery Pillco, image by Eleanor Flatt, Kumar Paudel, image courtesy of Paudel.

Future for Nature Award 2025 winners conserve frogs, pangolins, dwarf deer

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Mar 2025
A closer look at the unknown Brazilian fox

A closer look at the unknown Brazilian fox

Augusto Gomes, Julia Lemos Lima 13 Mar 2025
The first section of the road, which is now complete, runs from Peru’s Bellavista district to a town called Santo Tomás. Image by Vico Mendez / SPDA.

More Indigenous peoples request consultation as controversial road paves through Peru’s Amazon

Aimee Gabay 13 Mar 2025
Two Munduruku boys walk along a river in the Sawré Muybu Indigenous Land. Image by Anderson Barbosa / Greenpeace.

Brazil’s crackdown on illegal mining in Munduruku Indigenous land sees success, but fears remain

Aimee Gabay 12 Mar 2025

Brazil’s Lava Jato investigation: the biggest corruption scandal of the last decade

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Mar 2025
tree timber Brazil

Forest management ambitions in Brazilian Amazon aim to make up for lost time

Jenny Gonzales 12 Mar 2025
Scorched earth on the banks of the drought-stricken Xingu River on September 12th, 2024. Photo © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace.

Will Brazil’s President Lula wake up to the climate crisis? (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 12 Mar 2025

A bird last seen by Darwin 190 years ago reappears on a Galápagos island

Bobby Bascomb 11 Mar 2025
wind turbines

Brazil communities accuse companies of ‘green grabbing’ for wind energy

Jonathan Moens, Thomas Bauer 7 Mar 2025

Brazil’s SUDAM scandal, a case of government-backed deforestation

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Mar 2025
Scientists describe a new parrot snake species from the Brazilian Cerrado. Image courtesy of Diego Santana.

New species of parrot snake described in Brazil’s threatened Cerrado

Shanna Hanbury 6 Mar 2025
Yaku Raymi: The Quechua Ritual to Save a Glacier

Yaku Raymi: The Quechua Ritual to Save a Glacier

Elizabeth Salazar Vega, Geraldine Santos 6 Mar 2025
deforestation Amazon

New setbacks for Peruvian Amazon reserve put uncontacted tribes at risk

Carla Ruas 6 Mar 2025
Logging operation in the Amazonian state of Rondônia.

Clash of worlds for the Amazon’s Cinta Larga: Interview with author Alex Cuadros

Sam Cowie 5 Mar 2025
Illegal deforestation in Pauini, Amazonas state, Brazil. Image courtesy of Brazilian Federal Police.

91% of Brazilian Amazon deforestation last year was illegal, report finds

Shanna Hanbury 4 Mar 2025
Mid rescue, the moment she realized I was trying to help. Photo by Stephane Thomas.

World Wildlife Day 2025: What I learned speaking spider monkey

Paul Rosolie 3 Mar 2025

Land distribution in the Pan Amazon is tainted by corruption

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Feb 2025

Land rights bill in Suriname sparks outrage in Indigenous communities

Maxwell Radwin 28 Feb 2025
Equipped with drones and other technologies, young people from the Yanomami Indigenous Land actively monitor their territory, which has faced a serious humanitarian and environmental crisis due to illegal gold and cassiterite mining. Image courtesy of Evilene Paixão/HAY.

Yanomami youth turn to drones to watch their Amazon territory

Elizabeth Oliveira 28 Feb 2025
Artwork of the ponds described in the paper. . These ponds were part od a sophisticated irrigation system that allowed for year-round corn growing.

Study unearths sophisticated year-round corn-growing system in ancient Bolivian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 27 Feb 2025

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