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Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

For some of the world's rarest monkeys, the path to survival now runs through a simple network of ropes.

The Amazon’s Invisible Network: How Animals and Trees Sustain the World’s Largest Rainforest

By mapping interactions across more than 5,000 Amazonian tree species, researchers reveal that protecting the forest also means protecting its pollinators and seed dispersers.

WWF warns Amazon rainforest could face 'tipping point' risk as climate extremes accelerate

WWF warns parts of the Amazon previously considered resilient to climate impacts may now be under growing threat

Hundreds of Geoglyphs Discovered in Amazon Rainforest

HELSINKI, FINLAND—Live Science reports that a lidar survey of more than 1,700 square miles of […] The post Hundreds of Geoglyphs Discovered in Amazon Rainforest appeared first on A...

How Brazil’s federal fiscal policy hinders Amazon Rainforest conservation (commentary)

The forests of the Brazilian Amazon are, by any measure, among the most important ecosystems on Earth. They absorb carbon on a planetary scale, regulate rainfall across South Ameri...

Five South American nations arrest hundreds and seize illicit assets in landmark Amazon rainforest crackdown

Five South American countries on Tuesday announced a joint law enforcement operation targeting environmental crimes in the Amazon rainforest. The campaign, dubbed Operation Green S...

For Brazil’s Xokleng people, saving a sacred tree means saving their culture

IBIRAMA-LA KLÃNÕ INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — Zág, pronounced “zã,” is the Xokleng word for the Brazilian pine. This tree species, Araucaria angustifolia, is typical of the Atlan...

Why are forests vanishing in southeastern Liberia?

GRAND GEDEH, Liberia – In the past century, most of West Africa’s Upper Guinean rainforest has been lost to commercial agriculture, infrastructure development and logging. More tha...

Paamari: Reclaiming ancestral fire management in the Peruvian Amazon 

Asháninka communities in Peru’s central Amazon are combining ancestral knowledge with satellite monitoring through PAAMARI to prevent wildfires. The community-led initiative is red...

Protect this tree. Save Africa’s rainforests.

Ogbono is one of Africa’s most iconic plants, and its seed is one of African cuisine’s iconic ingredients. Providing both food and shelter for a great many species; this canopy tre...

Without stronger government action, Brazil’s low deforestation in the Amazon is unlikely to last

Researchers say that the rainforest is at risk of losing the equivalent of about 2 million soccer fields over the next 10 years.

Renato Moraes de Jesus was a pioneer of Atlantic Forest restoration in Brazil

In 1977 a young forest engineer arrived at a neglected tract of Atlantic Forest in northern Espírito Santo. A mining company had acquired the property as a source of hardwood for r...

Mariano Cenamo, advocate for a sustainable Amazon bioeconomy, has died, aged 46

For people trying to protect the Amazon, one problem has persisted for decades. A hectare of intact forest stores carbon, regulates water, supports wildlife, and provides food and...

Key tree species boost Amazon forest restoration, new study shows

Regrowing Amazon forests face a quiet collapse if fast pioneer trees die without stronger successors.

Amazon tree rings reveal more intense drought and rainfall in the rainforest

Tree rings from the Amazon show that the world’s largest rainforest has developed wetter wet seasons and drier dry seasons over the past four decades. The findings point to intense...

End of Brazil’s Soy Moratorium risks millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest: Study

Millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest are newly at risk of being legally deforested, a new study estimates. The potential increase in deforestation comes as soy companies have...

‘It’s total devastation’: inside the Amazonian war against illegal gold mining

The Guardian goes on the ground with Brazilian forces fighting to eradicate mining that has destroyed protected areas of Indigenous landThe jerry-built bordello at the foot of Vila...

Peru is losing a battle against illegal gold mining in its rainforests

Even when operations to disrupt illegal gold mines go according to plan, it's only a matter of days before miners return, said a federal prosecutor involved in the operations.

Indonesia's new capital is changing the Borneo rainforest forever. Science is listening to the change

Indonesia is building a new capital city in the heart of Borneo to replace sinking Jakarta. As construction transforms one of the world's most biodiverse rainforests, scientists an...

Something strange is happening in Liberia

Liberia is losing its rainforest at an alarming rate. Satellite data reveals rapid deforestation across one of West Africa’s last remaining intact rainforests, driven largely by il...

Indigenous territories maintain Amazon forest just as well as protected areas, study finds

A new study has found that in Ecuador’s Amazon, Indigenous territories without formal conservation contracts maintained forest conditions just as well as formal protected areas. Ec...

Antarctica once had a rainforest just 900 km from the South Pole

Land rights and mangroves entwine in a Brazilian quilombo’s resistance

BREJÃO DOS NEGROS, Brazil — It’s hard to tell where one ends and the other starts. Here on Brazil’s Atlantic coast, where the São Francisco River meets the sea, waves ripple across...