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What’s at stake for the environment in Honduras’ presidential election?

Maxwell Radwin 26 Nov 2025

In the Andes, elections ride on political frustrations and social movements

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Nov 2025

The land deal threatening a vital piece of Bolivia’s Chiquitano dry forest

Maxwell Radwin 20 Nov 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Chile’s upcoming election?

Maxwell Radwin 13 Nov 2025

Suriname’s plan to capitalize on carbon: Q&A with President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons

Maxwell Radwin 4 Nov 2025

Deforestation and disease spread as Nicaragua ignores illegal cattle ranching

Maxwell Radwin 20 Oct 2025
A deforested area in Barrerias, in Bahia state.

Deforestation for soy continues in Brazilian Cerrado despite EUDR looming

Constance Malleret 17 Oct 2025
An oil pipeline through Wampis territory in the Amazonas department. Image by Jacob Balzani.

Legal actions to protect the Amazon produce mixed results across the region

Timothy J. Killeen 16 Oct 2025

Peru considers stripping protections for Indigenous people and their territories

Maxwell Radwin 13 Oct 2025

Wildfire smoke could kill 71,000 people per year in the US by 2050, study warns

Liz Kimbrough 8 Oct 2025
Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo with elders and community leaders.

Protecting Indigenous Amazon lands may also protect public health, study says

Constance Malleret 19 Sep 2025
Cattle ranching

The formula that reduced deforestation in Brazil in the 21st century

Timothy J. Killeen 19 Sep 2025
A structure built by one of the isolated communities in Loreto, Peru. Image courtesy of ORPIO

Isolated tribes under threat as Peru votes down Yavarí Mirim Indigenous Reserve

Maxwell Radwin 8 Sep 2025

Strategies against deforestation across the Amazon Basin

Timothy J. Killeen 7 Aug 2025
An Indigenous group in a boat in the Ucayali River.

Recently contacted Indigenous in Peru want REDD+ and conservationists to stay away

Kimberley Brown 31 Jul 2025
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More than 10,000 species on brink of extinction need urgent action: Study

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jul 2025

Mounting corporate pressure on Honduras threatens community rights

Aimee Gabay 24 Jul 2025
The Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Ecuador’s new protected areas law sparks debate over security, development

Maxwell Radwin 23 Jul 2025

Private financing for Argentina’s lithium is anything but green, critics say

Maxwell Radwin 1 Jul 2025
Boats sporting "No Dam" parade down the Salween River along the Thai-Myanmar border in March 2025. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Specter of dams and diversion looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River

Gerald Flynn 19 Jun 2025
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Revived hydropower project to bring forced displacement, Peru communities warn

Aimee Gabay 6 Jun 2025

Strategic planning for development in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Jun 2025
Sakda Khayankitphuanphon took reporters into the old mining tunnels to see the fluorite that Universal Mining seeks to extract from the mountains. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Mining company returns to haunt Thailand’s Karen communities as resistance mounts

Gerald Flynn 4 Jun 2025

What’s at stake for the environment in Suriname’s upcoming elections?

Maxwell Radwin 23 May 2025

Chile draws road map for peace in Mapuche land conflict, but concerns remain

Maxwell Radwin 21 May 2025

German supermarket palm oil linked to Indigenous rights abuses in Guatemala

Maxwell Radwin 19 May 2025

Colombia creates landmark territory to protect uncontacted Indigenous groups

Maxwell Radwin 27 Mar 2025

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

Maxwell Radwin 21 Mar 2025

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

Maxwell Radwin 20 Mar 2025
deforestation Amazon

New setbacks for Peruvian Amazon reserve put uncontacted tribes at risk

Carla Ruas 6 Mar 2025

Land rights bill in Suriname sparks outrage in Indigenous communities

Maxwell Radwin 28 Feb 2025
CTPH also supports alternative livelihoods through a social enterprise, Gorilla Conservation Coffee, which supports and markets premium coffee grown by farmers near Bwindi. Image courtesy of Jo-Anne McArthur.

Coffee companies are readier for the EUDR than they claim (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 25 Feb 2025

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