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Report exposes meatpackers’ role in recent chemical deforestation in Brazil

How the Brazilian military sabotaged protection of Indigenous people in the Amazon

In Chile, a copper mining project tainted by environmental damage sues 32 locals

Extreme drought pushes Amazon’s main rivers to lowest-ever levels

Resilient and resourceful, Brazil’s illegal gold capital resists government crackdown

Mining company tied to Cambodian military officials grabs community forest

Brazil launches ‘war’ on widespread fire outbreaks & criminal arsonists

Study shows most Amazon beef & soy demand comes from Brazil — not exports

Rio Tinto-linked mine still not fulfilling promises to Mongolian herders

Indonesia expands IPLC land recognition — but the pace is too slow, critics say

Deal ends environmental agents’ strike in Brazil, but grievances fester

Communities fend off attacks as officials study Brazil’s anti-Indigenous land rights bill

Amazon Fraud 101: How timber credits mask illegal logging in Brazil

Advocacy group links Uganda oil infrastructure to human-elephant conflict

Gold mining in the Amazon has doubled in area since 2018, AI tool shows

Garifuna land rights abuses persist in Honduras, despite court ruling

Allegations widen against Indonesian palm oil giant Astra Agro Lestari

Environmental agents intensify strike amid record fires in Brazil

Revealed: Illegal cattle boom in Arariboia territory in deadliest year for Indigenous Guajajara

2 years after Bruno & Dom’s murders, Amazon region still rife with gangs

Activists decry latest arrests of East African oil pipeline opponents

Brazil police raid Amazon carbon credit projects exposed by Mongabay

Cambodian companies tied to abuses promoted by UN program, rights group alleges

Can Vietnam’s forests survive the spread of acacia and eucalyptus plantations? (commentary)

Fishers left with no land, no fish, in fire sale of Cambodian coast

Narco activity takes heavy toll on Colombia’s protected forests, satellite data show

New bill to expand farmlands in the Amazon may derail Brazil’s green efforts

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

Indigenous leader’s killer is convicted in Brazil, but tensions over land remain

‘Our rights are on trial in Brazil’: Interview with Indigenous movement pioneer Brasílio Priprá

New ban threatens traditional fishers in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state

Goldman Prize honors Brazilian investigation linking JBS & deforestation

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