Amazon

Indigenous leaders, traditional communities and researchers are resisting development in the Amazon rainforest that could push its ecosystems past irreversible tipping points.

Strikes, walkouts and protests are again planned for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend at Amazon sites in 30 countries.

The BR-319 threatens the Amazon in the name of ‘progress’ and politics.

BR-319: Paving the way for Indigenous displacement and environmental catastrophe.

BR-319: A highway to climate chaos in the heart of the Amazon.

Meet the next generation of Indigenous Earth defenders.

Professor Herbert Girardet today launches a major new series of essays - Megamorphosis - exclusively with The Ecologist.

Misinformation campaign behind weakening of Amazon protections exposed by scientists.

Estela Casanto Mauricio, a Peruvian indigenous leader, was killed for her advocacy for the right to live in a healthy environment.

Two-thirds of UK public say government should do more to tackle Amazon destruction.

New documentary on indigenous rights and the future of the Amazon launches online.

Worsening fires and deforestation in the Amazon are exacerbating the situation for indigenous people, who are already more vulnerable to Covid-19, scientists say.

The story of deforestation is also the story of the globalisation.

Emergency food parcels needed for Peru's jungle city hit by Covid-19.

Europe's resolve to act against the Bolsonaro government’s environmental crimes appears to be strengthening.

More than 100 organisations have signed a letter repudiating mining companies for putting Indigenous Shuar communities in the Ecuadorean Amazon at risk.

Indigenous communities in Latin America are paying a high price for defending biodiversity, but we have so much to learn from their practices.

Land in Amazon 'arc of deforestation' turned into small scale 'silvopastoral' systems, where animals graze among trees.

Ecuadorian children take state-owned Petro Amazonas to court over air pollution from gas flares.

Amazon leaders call on Boris Johnson to 'stand with us' in face of attacks.

'Governments are weakening environmental protections, violating existing indigenous land rights.'

Cattle farming is the main driver of illegal land seizures that violate human rights in Reserves and Indigenous territories

'35-40 percent of trees cut for industrial purposes become paper products.'

Evolutionary diversity should be an important consideration when identifying priority areas for conservation.