Amazon Conservation News

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal in the Amazon faces bumpy road ahead

New conservation model calls for protecting Amazon for its archaeological riches

Brazil dredges Amazon rivers to ease drought isolation, raising environmental concerns

‘We need white men on our side to save the Amazon from destruction,’ 92-year-old Indigenous Chief Raoni says

Extreme drought pushes Amazon’s main rivers to lowest-ever levels

Drought forces Amazon Indigenous communities to drink mercury-tainted water

Acre’s communities face drinking water shortage amid Amazon drought

Deal ends environmental agents’ strike in Brazil, but grievances fester

Forest degradation releases 5 times more Amazon carbon than deforestation: Study

Raw materials become high-value bioeconomy goods at an Amazon science park

No plans, no progress make Peru’s energy transition uncertain

Hydropower plants disrupt fishers’ lives in Amazon’s most biodiverse river basin

Time for a copal comeback? The natural resin could boost Amazon’s economy

After isolated tribes’ rare appearance in Peruvian Amazon, big questions remain for their future

Are the Amazon’s biggest trees dying? Forest coroners investigate

If a giant tree dies, these scientists want to know why

To host 2025 climate summit, Brazil will carve up an Amazonian reserve

Study to benchmark water quality finds key Amazon tributary in good shape

After historic 2023 drought, Amazon communities brace for more in Brazil

Brazil’s new pro-agribusiness pesticide law threatens Amazon biodiversity

Study says 40% of Amazon region is potentially conserved — more than officially recorded

Environmental agents intensify strike amid record fires in Brazil

Fire bans not effective as the Amazon and Pantanal burn, study says

Reintroduction project brings golden parakeets back to the skies of Brazil’s Belém

Wai Wai people’s push for direct access to Brazil nut market

Indigenous Wai Wai seek markets for Brazil nuts without middlemen

Wai Wai people’s push for direct access to Brazil nut market

Revealed: Illegal cattle boom in Arariboia territory in deadliest year for Indigenous Guajajara

New bill to expand farmlands in the Amazon may derail Brazil’s green efforts

Bird populations are mysteriously declining at an Amazon park in Ecuador & beyond

New ban threatens traditional fishers in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state

Deforestation haunts top Peruvian reserve and its Indigenous communities

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