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Clearest picture yet of Amazon carbon density could help guide conservation

Maxwell Radwin 12 Sep 2024

The future of extractive industries in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 6 Sep 2024
A channel-billed toucan in Yasuní National Park.

Could the ‘rights of nature’ save Yasuní and keep its oil in the ground? (commentary)

Mari Margil and Hugo Echeverría 29 Aug 2024

The indelible traces of oil and gas in the Peruvian, Ecuadorian and Colombian Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 22 Aug 2024

One year after oil referendum, what’s next for Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park?

Aimee Gabay 20 Aug 2024

The Andes are a key supplier of gold for the Amazon Basin

Timothy J. Killeen 15 Aug 2024

New datasets identify which crops deforest the Amazon, and where

Maxwell Radwin 2 Aug 2024
Cacao pod in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

New relatives of the cacao tree uncovered in old plant collections

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jul 2024

The Amazon’s most fertile forests are also most vulnerable to drought: Study

Claire Asher 26 Jul 2024

Ecuador’s Indigenous Cofán show how to have your turtle and eat it too

Astrid Arellano 17 Jul 2024

Industrial minerals in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Jul 2024

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

Liz Kimbrough 1 Jul 2024

‘Miracle’ in miniature as rare new plant defies deforestation in Ecuador

Liz Kimbrough 28 Jun 2024

The most prominent mining companies in the Pan Amazon – a review

Timothy J. Killeen 21 Jun 2024

Solutions to avoid loss of environmental, social and governance investment

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Jun 2024

Weak banking regulations leave two-thirds of Amazon vulnerable to oil and gas

Maxwell Radwin 11 Jun 2024

In the Pan Amazon, environmental liabilities of old mining have become economic liabilities

Timothy J. Killeen 5 Jun 2024
In 2021, a resident of the small Ecuadorian town of Simiátug found a male frog putatively belonging to the long-lost species Atelopus guanujo.

A tale of two frogs: The tough uphill battle for rediscovered species

Katarina Zimmer 4 Jun 2024
Rainforest in Panama. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

How real action on environmental justice comes from Latin America’s community alliances (commentary)

Rebecca Wilson and Eliana Lafone 3 Jun 2024

Ecuador’s Los Lobos narcotrafficking gang muscles in on illegal gold mining

Arturo Torres, Dan Collyns 28 May 2024

Global markets and their effects on resource exploitation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 21 May 2024

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

Bernardo Araujo 16 May 2024
Armed police and military forces called by a Canadian mining company carry out operations in Sigchos

As miner quells protests in Ecuador, Canadian firms’ rights record faces scrutiny

Aimee Gabay 15 May 2024

Extractive industries look at degraded land to avoid further deforestation in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 15 May 2024

An ancient Indigenous lagoon system brings water back to a dry town in Ecuador

Alexis Serrano Carmona 15 May 2024

Is the extractive sector really favorable for the Pan Amazon’s economy?

Timothy J. Killeen 8 May 2024
Cattle in a deforested patch of Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Indonesian palm oil, Brazilian beef top contributors to U.S. deforestation exposure

Liz Kimbrough 7 May 2024

CITES halts Ecuador’s shark trade; trafficking persists amid lack of transparency

Carlos Chunga 6 May 2024

State management and regulation of extractive industries in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 2 May 2024
A member of the Ghanaian maritime police observes a vessel suspected of fishing illegally prior to boarding it as part of a U.S.-Ghana combined maritime law enforcement operation in 2014. Image courtesy of Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0 Deed).

Fishing by dodgy fleets hurts economies, jobs in developing countries: Report

Mikael Angelo S. Francisco 26 Apr 2024
Silvia Vetancourt holds out a coin purse she is crocheting from cabuya fiber on the path to Plaza Gutierrez, Ecuador. Photo by Liz Kimbrough.

Women weave a culture of resistance and agroecology in Ecuador’s Intag Valley

Liz Kimbrough 25 Apr 2024

Outdated infrastructure and oil spills: the cases of Colombia, Peru and Ecuador

Timothy J. Killeen 25 Apr 2024

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