BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — To combat ongoing destruction in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil announced a plan Tuesday to dramatically expand selective logging to an area the size of Costa Rica over the next ...

Mongabay examined four REDD+ projects in Pará state and found that all were developed in partnership with sawmill owners with a long history of environmental fines. The projects were developed by ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists ...

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PORTO VELHO, Brazil - Brazilian environmental agents seized the equivalent of more than 5,000 truckloads of timber in an operation targeting one of the most heavily logged regions of the Amazon ...

The raids coincided with a huge protest in the capital Brasilia by indigenous people demanding better protection of their lands from miners, loggers and farmers, as well as new reports sounding the ...

Striking new images show members of one of the world’s most isolated Indigenous tribes emerging from the rainforest in a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon, close to where several logging companies ...

As a result, deforestation linked to garimpos, small-scale gold miners (often illegal), in the Amazon plummeted by 30% in 2023 compared to 2022. In June, the Brazilian Federal Police targeted a group ...

Smoke rises from a fire near a logging area in the Transamazonica highway region, in the municipality of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File) BRASILIA, Brazil ...