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

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

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

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

Brazil has struggled with water scarcity from the Amazon rainforest to the Pantanal wetlands. For the past four years, the ...

Pupy (pronounced POOH’-pee in Spanish) did not require sedation during the five-day journey to Elephant Sanctuary Brazil, the ...

It is being “falsely arguing” that the amendments are necessary to comply with the EU’s new forest regulations, campaigners ...

The Amazon rainforest, often called the “lungs of the Earth,” extends ... distributing rainfall across the continent and into the Northern Hemisphere, including parts of the United States. Amazon ...

Jair Bolsonaro said to an audience in Mato Grosso do Sul in 2015, before becoming Brazil’s thirty-eighth president. At other times, he has said that the demarcation of indigenous territories is an ...

A controversial amendment to Peru's forestry law is sparking outrage, as it eliminates the need for state authorization before converting forest land, potentially accelerating Amazon deforestation.

Though Lula has sought to be recognized as a champion of the world's tropical forests and Brazil's Indigenous peoples, he has ...