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Since the beginning of the operation, government environmental agents have been destroying the logistical support of illegal mining, such as an airplane, a helicopter and a tractor, and have seized weapons and boats. Image courtesy of IBAMA by Ricardo Campos.

Lula government scrambles to overcome Yanomami crisis, but hurdles remain

Jenny Gonzales 6 Mar 2023

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Regenerative agriculture in Mexico boosts yields while restoring nature

Dimitri Selibas 19 Aug 2022

A beetle on an Inírida flower.

How a rare Colombian flower cultivated with Indigenous know-how is changing lives

Soraya Kishtwari 18 Aug 2022

lake landscape

Restoring Mexico’s ‘Garden of Eden’ is a process of deep regeneration

Ocean Malandra 21 Jul 2022

Colombia dam

Displaced by a dam, women defenders fight for their land rights in Colombia

Jane K. Feeney 13 Jul 2022

A protest held in the Yankuntich community

Amazonian communities in Peru try to keep oil-rich Block 64 in their own hands

Gloria Alvitres 7 Jul 2022

Plantations in Cuesta del Ternero that burned in January 2021. Image courtesy of Denali DeGraf.

Tree plantations in Patagonia are the site of wildfires and land dispute

Denali DeGraf 6 Jul 2022

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Indigenous communities in Colombia’s Amazon move closer to self-governance

Dimitri Selibas 29 Jun 2022

Illegal gold mining inside the Munduruku and Sai Cinza Indigenous Lands

Swiss pledge to stop illegal gold imports from Brazil Indigenous reserves

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 27 Jun 2022

cerrado grasslands

EU’s anti-deforestation bill leaves out critical ecosystems, study shows

Sarah Sax 21 Jun 2022

Arabica coffee growing under a shade of trees. Image courtesy of Noel Rojo.

Farmers in Mexico fight coffee disease with resistant varieties and agroforestry

Magdaléna Rojo 15 Jun 2022

‘Lost’ Amazonian cities hint at how to build urban landscapes without harming nature

Kimberley Brown 15 Jun 2022

View of the Nangaritza valley from near Las Orquideas. Photo by Andrew Neil via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Illegal mining threatens one of the last forest links between the Andes and Ecuador’s Amazon

Jackeline Beltrán 10 Jun 2022

The Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher (Terenotriccus erythrurus) is a common species that forages on insects in the forest understory (an understory insectivore). Image courtesy of Dr. John Whitelaw.

Drastic declines in Neotropical birds in a protected Panamanian forest

Neha Jain 31 May 2022

Pedro Uc is a poet, campesino and defender of his territory. Photo taken from his Facebook page.

‘What’s lacking is respect for Mayan culture’: Q&A with Pedro Uc Be on Mexico’s Tren Maya

Thelma Gómez Durán 30 May 2022

Tale of two pandemics as mining thrived while communities faced restrictions

Sandra Cuffe 24 May 2022

Achiote trees in a Kwicha community in Pastaza province

Ecuador’s Pastaza province, Indigenous groups collaborate on forest conservation

Dimitri Selibas 11 Apr 2022

Sabino Gualinga, Amazon shaman and defender of the ‘living forest,’ passes away

Kimberley Brown 23 Feb 2022

Q'eqchi ownership of the land.

Indigenous community takes Guatemalan land rights fight to international court

Sandra Cuffe 9 Feb 2022

Politicized Indigenous affairs agency puts Brazil’s uncontacted groups at risk

Shanna Hanbury 9 Feb 2022

Waorani women

Ecuador’s top court rules for stronger land rights for Indigenous communities

Kimberley Brown 9 Feb 2022

Sixty of one, half a dozen of the other: Rare magnolias get a new start in Ecuador’s Chocó

Liz Kimbrough, Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2022

Death threats and friction with military force Guatemalan rangers to flee

Maxwell Radwin 20 Dec 2021

French deforestation database pressures Brazilian soy traders to clean up supply chain

Maxwell Radwin 14 Dec 2021

In southern Colombia, Indigenous groups fish and farm with the floods

Maxwell Radwin 8 Dec 2021

Indigenous community saves Colombia’s poison dart frog from coca and logging

Maxwell Radwin 30 Nov 2021

Venezuelans hit by cooking gas shortages look to forests for firewood

Maxwell Radwin 24 Nov 2021

In Mexico City’s urban sprawl, an unexpected illegal logging network thrives

Maxwell Radwin 5 Nov 2021

Deforestation from cattle ranching also hurts rivers in Nicaragua, study says

Maxwell Radwin 22 Oct 2021

Paraguay failed to stop soy farms from poisoning Indigenous land, UN says

Maxwell Radwin 21 Oct 2021

Environmental defenders in Nicaragua denounce government crackdown as elections loom

Maxwell Radwin 13 Oct 2021

Half of burned forests across Latin America don’t survive, study finds

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 20 Aug 2021

Hotter and drier: Deforestation and wildfires take a toll on the Amazon

Ignacio Amigo 20 Jul 2021

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