Amazon Conservation News

Hydropower plants disrupt fishers’ lives in Amazon’s most biodiverse river basin

Kevin Damasio 31 Jul 2024

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

Fernanda Wenzel 11 Sep 2024

Drought forces Amazon Indigenous communities to drink mercury-tainted water

Fernanda Wenzel 5 Sep 2024

Acre’s communities face drinking water shortage amid Amazon drought

Tácita Muniz 16 Aug 2024

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

Fernanda Wenzel 15 Aug 2024

Fire in an area newly deforested in Brazil.

Forest degradation releases 5 times more Amazon carbon than deforestation: Study

Justin Catanoso 9 Aug 2024

Luís Adriano Nascimento, chemist and vice-coordinator of the Laboratório de Óleos da Amazônia (Amazon Oils Laboratory, LOA), stands at a lab bench with a wide collection of Amazonian fruits and seeds used to make oils, biofuels and bioplastics.

Raw materials become high-value bioeconomy goods at an Amazon science park

Sarah Brown 6 Aug 2024

A man walks past solar panels.

No plans, no progress make Peru’s energy transition uncertain

Yvette Sierra Praeli 1 Aug 2024

Hydropower plants disrupt fishers’ lives in Amazon’s most biodiverse river basin

Kevin Damasio 31 Jul 2024

Hymenaea courbaril

Time for a copal comeback? The natural resin could boost Amazon’s economy

Fernanda Wenzel 30 Jul 2024

Dozens of isolated Indigenous Mashco Piro men and boys on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon. Image courtesy of Survival International.

After isolated tribes’ rare appearance in Peruvian Amazon, big questions remain for their future

Dan Collyns 29 Jul 2024

Adriane Esquivel Muelbert and Evan Gora examine a fallen giant tree in the Amazon, hoping to identify hints of its cause of death.

Are the Amazon’s biggest trees dying? Forest coroners investigate

Daniel Grossman 29 Jul 2024

If a giant tree dies, these scientists want to know why

Patrick Vanier, Sandy Watt 29 Jul 2024

To host 2025 climate summit, Brazil will carve up an Amazonian reserve

Sarah Brown 23 Jul 2024

Harvard researchers Evan Routhier and Faiz Haque during the sample collections at dawn in the Paraná do Jacaré, in the Negro River in mid-September 2023.

Study to benchmark water quality finds key Amazon tributary in good shape

Kevin Damasio 15 Jul 2024

After historic 2023 drought, Amazon communities brace for more in Brazil

Amanda Magnani 10 Jul 2024

Brazil’s new pro-agribusiness pesticide law threatens Amazon biodiversity

André Schröder 3 Jul 2024

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

Liz Kimbrough 1 Jul 2024

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.

Environmental agents intensify strike amid record fires in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Jun 2024

Fire bans not effective as the Amazon and Pantanal burn, study says

Fernanda Wenzel 27 Jun 2024

Reintroduction project brings golden parakeets back to the skies of Brazil’s Belém

Sarah Brown 26 Jun 2024

Wai Wai people’s push for direct access to Brazil nut market

Avener Prado, Rodrigo Pedroso, Sam Cowie 24 Jun 2024

Indigenous Wai Wai seek markets for Brazil nuts without middlemen

Rodrigo Pedroso, Sam Cowie and Avener Prado 24 Jun 2024

Wai Wai people’s push for direct access to Brazil nut market

Avener Prado, Rodrigo Pedroso, Sam Cowie 24 Jun 2024

Commercial cattle ranching is banned on Indigenous territories in Brazil, but a yearlong Mongabay investigation reveals that large plots in the Arariboia Indigenous Territory have been used for ranching amid a record-high number of killings of the region’s Indigenous Guajajara inhabitants.

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

Karla Mendes 19 Jun 2024

Extensive cattle ranch Estância Bahia, in Água Boa, Mato Grosso state.

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

Fernanda Wenzel 29 May 2024

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

Bernardo Araujo 16 May 2024

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

João Paulo Guimarães 6 May 2024

A harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja)

Deforestation haunts top Peruvian reserve and its Indigenous communities

Aimee Gabay 24 Apr 2024

Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests

Sarah Brown 23 Apr 2024

A cattle ranch in a deforeated area.

A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Apr 2024

Brazil boosts protection of Amazon mangroves with new reserves in Pará state

Sarah Brown 19 Apr 2024

An uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the Brazilian state of Acre.

Cross-border Indigenous efforts in Peru & Brazil aim to protect isolated groups

Aimee Gabay 18 Apr 2024

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