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How the Brazilian military sabotaged protection of Indigenous people in the Amazon
André Schröder
16 Sep 2024
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Report exposes meatpackers’ role in recent chemical deforestation in Brazil
Sarah Brown
17 Sep 2024
How the Brazilian military sabotaged protection of Indigenous people in the Amazon
André Schröder
16 Sep 2024
Itaituba: Brazil’s gold capital resists government crackdown
Fernanda Wenzel, Fernando Martinho
9 Sep 2024
Amazon Fraud 101: How timber credits mask illegal logging in Brazil
Fernanda Wenzel
8 Aug 2024
Gold mining in the Amazon has doubled in area since 2018, AI tool shows
Fernanda Wenzel
26 Jul 2024
Report reveals widespread use of smuggled mercury in Amazon gold mining
Fernanda Wenzel
17 Jul 2024
Revealed: Illegal cattle boom in Arariboia territory in deadliest year for Indigenous Guajajara
Karla Mendes
19 Jun 2024
The harsh, dangerous gig of seizing thousands of illegal cattle in the Amazon
Fernanda Wenzel
13 Jun 2024
Verra suspends carbon credit projects following police raid in Brazil
Fernanda Wenzel
11 Jun 2024
2 years after Bruno & Dom’s murders, Amazon region still rife with gangs
Jaqueline Sordi
10 Jun 2024
Brazil police raid Amazon carbon credit projects exposed by Mongabay
Fernanda Wenzel
7 Jun 2024
Mongabay video screening at Chile’s Supreme Court expected to help landmark verdict in Brazil
Karla Mendes
31 May 2024
In Amazon’s tri-border Javari region, teens fall prey to drug gangs’ lure
Ivan Brehaut, Rodrigo Pedroso, Victoria Carlos
24 May 2024
Top brands buy Amazon carbon credits from suspected timber laundering scam
Fernanda Wenzel
21 May 2024
Indigenous leader’s killer is convicted in Brazil, but tensions over land remain
Sarah Brown
7 May 2024
Goldman Prize honors Brazilian investigation linking JBS & deforestation
André Schröder
29 Apr 2024
Deforestation haunts top Peruvian reserve and its Indigenous communities
Aimee Gabay
24 Apr 2024
Brazil’s illegal gold trade takes a hammering, but persists underground
Fernanda Wenzel
16 Apr 2024
Alis Ramírez: A defender of the Colombian Amazon now living as a refugee in New Zealand
Laila Abu Shihab Vergara
8 Apr 2024
Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of reach
Hans Nicholas Jong
4 Apr 2024
Agribusiness bill moves to block grassland protections in Brazilian biomes
Fernanda Wenzel
28 Mar 2024
Promise of full demarcation for isolated Amazon tribe rings hollow for some
Aimee Gabay
11 Jan 2024
Outcry as Brazil Congress overrides president to revive anti-Indigenous law
Sarah Brown
15 Dec 2023
Sieged by mining and megaprojects, the Munduruku push for land rights in the Amazon
Sam Cowie
1 Dec 2023
The coveted legacy of the ‘Man of the Hole’ and his cultivated Amazon forest
Fabio Zuker
22 Nov 2023
End of impunity for Indigenous killings in sight for Brazil’s Guajajara
Karla Mendes
20 Nov 2023
The trial that could change the fate of the Guajajara
Ingrid Barros, Karla Mendes
20 Nov 2023
Brazil strikes intruders of Amazon’s most deforested Indigenous land
Sarah Brown
11 Oct 2023
Video: Five Tembé Indigenous activists shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’
Karla Mendes
11 Aug 2023
Brazilian authorities launch probe into ‘Amazon’s largest single deforester’
André Schröder
10 Aug 2023
Indigenous activists demand justice after 5 shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’
Karla Mendes
9 Aug 2023
Oil palm and balsa plantations trigger deforestation in Ecuadorian Amazon
Ana Cristina Alvarado
8 Aug 2023
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