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Blue Anole from Colombia. Photo by Thomas Marent

For Latin America’s environmental defenders, Escazú Agreement is a voice and a shield

Genevieve Glatsky 7 Jan 2021
Rainforest mantis in Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Rainforests: 11 things to watch in 2021

Rhett A. Butler 1 Jan 2021

Notable deaths in conservation in 2020

Mongabay.com 28 Dec 2020
Red passion vine flower in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Colombia’s forests lurch between deforestation and the hope for a sustainable future

Dimitri Selibas 24 Dec 2020

Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award

Thais Borges and Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2020

Nazareth Cabrera fights for Colombia’s Indigenous Uitoto with the strength of her words

Carol Sánchez 17 Dec 2020

Colombian environmental official assassinated in southern Meta department

Antonio José Paz Cardona 7 Dec 2020

Years after defeating a giant gold mine, activists in Colombia still fear for their lives

Juan Zuleta Valencia 29 Oct 2020
An uncontacted tribe in the Brazilian Amazon photographed in . © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI.

2020 fires endangering uncontacted Amazon Indigenous groups

Liz Kimbrough 28 Oct 2020

Madagascar shuts down ‘illegal’ gold mine but activists remain in legal limbo

Edward Carver 21 Oct 2020

Ecuador Indigenous accuse state of crimes against humanity

Kimberley Brown 20 Oct 2020

TIME’s list of 100 most influential people in 2020 includes Indigenous Waorani leader

Kimberley Brown 24 Sep 2020

Park rangers, the guardians of Ecuador’s biodiversity, face job insecurity

Doménica Montaño 28 Aug 2020

Forest crimes persist in Peru following Indigenous leader’s murder

Yvette Sierra Praeli 3 Aug 2020

Double blow to Colombian Amazon and Indigenous groups from armed militants, COVID-19

Dimitri Selibas 31 Jul 2020

2019 was the deadliest year ever for environmental activists, watchdog group says

Ashoka Mukpo 29 Jul 2020

‘Criminalizing’ dissent, martial law fuel attacks on Philippine environmental defenders

Leilani Chavez 28 Jul 2020

Canada not walking the talk on its miners’ abuses abroad, campaigners say

Chris Arsenault 24 Jul 2020

Environmental defenders voice concerns as COVID-19 crisis deepens

Lauren Crothers 21 Jul 2020

Life as an Amazon activist: ‘I don’t want to be the next Dorothy Stang’

Peter Speetjens 13 Jul 2020

Court forces Ecuador government to protect Indigenous Waorani during COVID-19

Kimberley Brown 26 Jun 2020

The fire prophet: Dolors Armenteras on saving the Amazon and fighting misogyny in science

Nicolás Bustamante Hernández 23 Jun 2020

In Philippines’ Palawan, top cop linked to assault on environmental officer

Keith Anthony Fabro 11 Jun 2020

‘I’ll never be ready for this port,’ locals say of Colombia’s proposed project

Kimberley Brown 8 Jun 2020
A young Embera woman from Bajo Lepe. Image courtesy of the Rainforest Foundation.

Harrowing video shows indigenous Colombians fleeing gunfire

Ashoka Mukpo 28 May 2020

Deaths, arrests and protests as Philippines re-emerges from lockdown

Mongabay.com 21 May 2020

Farmer dies in custody after being charged in dispute with palm oil firm, prompting COVID-19 fears

Hans Nicholas Jong 28 Apr 2020
ICCN ranger with a gorilla in Virunga National Park, DRC. Image courtesy Nelis Wolmarans.

Twelve rangers killed in latest Virunga Park incident

Fred Kockott 25 Apr 2020

Land conflicts escalate with spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Apr 2020

South American indigenous peoples close territories in response to COVID-19

Yvette Sierra Praeli 14 Apr 2020

For Philippines’ displaced indigenous students, COVID-19 is one of many threats

Leilani Chavez 3 Apr 2020
Zezico Rodrigues Guajarara, a teacher from the Arariboia indigenous reserve in Maranhão state, was found shot dead on March 31. He is the fifth Guajarara leader to be killed since November 2019. Image reproduced from his Facebook profile. 

Calls for justice after latest murder of indigenous Guajajara leader in Brazil

Sam Cowie 3 Apr 2020

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