Criminal groups behind are placing the region’s vast biodiversity, fragile ecosystems, and Indigenous ways of life, under ...

A group of Brazilian researchers has, for the first time in the entire Atlantic Rainforest, estimated the population density ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

The Amazon rainforest is in trouble. According to Earth.com, 1,539 square miles of it, or an area around five times the size ...

Dozens of indigenous nations from different countries are calling for an oil drilling ban in the world's largest rainforest ...

New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest.

Mongabay followed the steps of Adriano Aguiar de Castro, who, according to authorities, jumped from one gold laundering ...

Pupy the elephant has arrived at her new home in a sanctuary in Mato Grosso, Brazil, following a 2,700-kilometer journey from ...

New Global Witness research exposes industrial agriculture’s threat to Brazil’s jaguar habitat and calls for urgent regulatory action to end deforestation ahead of COP30 ...

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

Also read: No respite for Brazil’s Yanomami group facing illegal mining-linked crisis Under Mr. Lula, illegal mining destroyed 4,219 hectares of Amazon rainforest — equivalent to about 5,900 ...

SAO PAULO, April 8 (Reuters) - Brazilian indigenous protesters have lifted a blockade of the Trans-Amazonian Highway, reopening a critical grain shipping route linking farmers to the Miritituba ...