Amazon Conservation News

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

Kevin Damasio 31 Jul 2024

Brazil’s Bolsonaro creates Amazon Council and Environmental Police force

Jan Rocha 24 Jan 2020

Catastrophic Amazon tipping point less than 30 years away: study

Claire Asher 23 Jan 2020

Fines for Amazon fires may go to indigenous communities under new bill

Mônica Nunes/Conexão Planeta 17 Jan 2020

Conflict in the Chico Mendes Reserve threatens this pioneering Amazonian project

Naira Hofmeister 16 Jan 2020

CANDEIRAS DO JAMARI, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL: Aerial view of a large burned area in the city of Candeiras do Jamari in the state of Rondônia. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

For final months of 2019, Amazon deforestation hits highest level in at least 13 years

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Jan 2020

Five murdered in 2020 Brazilian Amazon land conflicts, adding to 2019 surge

Sam Cowie 14 Jan 2020

Detail of the Igarapé Água Branca stream, the last clean waterway in the city of Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, in the Amazon region. Image by César Nogueira.

The fight is on to save the last clean waterway in Brazil’s Manaus

Sam Cowie 8 Jan 2020

Indigenous artists from the Amazon use art for environmental advocacy

Débora Menezes 7 Jan 2020

Bolsonaro’s Brazil: 2020 could see revived Amazon mining assault — part two

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 31 Dec 2019

Bolsonaro’s Brazil: 2019 brings death by 1,000 cuts to Amazon — part one

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 30 Dec 2019

Antonio Donato Nobre: “The forest is sick and losing its carbon-sequestration capacity”

Sibélia Zanon 23 Dec 2019

Brazil on the precipice: from environmental leader to despoiler (2010-2020)

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 23 Dec 2019

‘The tipping point is here, it is now,’ top Amazon scientists warn

Shanna Hanbury 20 Dec 2019

Paris accord ‘impossible to implement’ if tropical forest loss not stopped

Taran Volckhausen 19 Dec 2019

As pesticide approvals soar, Brazil’s tapirs, bees, other wildlife suffer

Jenny Gonzales 18 Dec 2019

Women from the Xingu Territory unite against threats from Bolsonaro administration

Maria Fernanda Ribeiro, Nádia Pontes 18 Dec 2019

Murders of indigenous leaders in Brazilian Amazon hits highest level in two decades

Shanna Hanbury 14 Dec 2019

COP25: Brazil’s official presence diverges widely from its public persona

Camila Nobrega 13 Dec 2019

Google Earth image showing deforestation south of Santarém, in the state of Pará.

Amazon deforestation paces ahead of recent historical norm

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2019

Evidence ‘unfounded’ against NGO volunteers accused of setting Amazon fires

Shanna Hanbury 9 Dec 2019

Amazon’s giant South American river turtle holding its own, but risks abound

Jenny Gonzales 6 Dec 2019

Follow the permits: How to identify corruption red flags in Indonesian land deals

The Gecko Project and Mongabay 4 Dec 2019

‘Everything is dying’: Q&A with Brazilian indigenous leader Alessandra Munduruku

Camila Nobrega 27 Nov 2019

Brazil sugarcane growth can meet biofuel need and not drive deforestation: study

Claire Asher 25 Nov 2019

Experts blame Bolsonaro for surge in deforestation, warn of worse to come

Liz Kimbrough 25 Nov 2019

Amazon trees may absorb far less carbon than previously thought: study

Claire Asher 21 Nov 2019

PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

Brazil’s new deforestation numbers confirm the “Bolsonaro Effect” despite denials (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 20 Nov 2019

CANDEIRAS DO JAMARI, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL: Aerial view of a large burned area in the city of Candeiras do Jamari in the state of Rondônia. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

Amazon deforestation rises to 11 year high in Brazil

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Nov 2019

Sugarcane threatens Amazon forest and world climate; Brazilian ethanol is not clean (commentary)

Lucas Ferrante and Philip M. Fearnside 18 Nov 2019

Brazil adds deforestation monitoring for all biomes, so long as money lasts

Jenny Gonzales 14 Nov 2019

In surprise move, Brazil has removed restrictions on Amazon sugarcane production

Naira Hofmeister 13 Nov 2019

Brazil’s ‘coconut breakers’ feel the squeeze of Cerrado development

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 12 Nov 2019

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