Amazon mapping shows cacao expansion without deforestation in Brazil
While West Africa clears rainforest for chocolate, Brazilian farmers are reviving degraded pastures.
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Money laundering complaints target JBS, Barclays over profits linked to illegal deforestation
A coalition of legal and environmental groups has filed money laundering complaints against JBS, the world’s largest meat processor, and 12 financial institutions, investors and advisers, including the U.K. bank Barclays. The complaints…
AI tiger-warning system rooted in local knowledge stalls for lack of support
In the land of tigers, prey animals like deer and monkeys are often the first to sound the alarm when they sense the predator’s presence. Forest communities in Nepal, where the success of tiger conservation has come at the cost of rising…
Revealing Amazon land grabs targeting an uncontacted community
Around 500 people recently invaded Indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon, home to an uncontacted Indigenous group. But this was no spontaneous land grab. Behind the occupation was a carefully coordinated political campaign. The territory…
Brazil election sparks threats to reinvade Indigenous Amazon territory
A federal judge issued an emergency order on Oct. 23 to deploy federal security forces to the Apyterewa Indigenous Land in Brazil’s Pará state. The order came after new evidence emerged that hundreds of former non-Indigenous occupants…
Cyanide ponds from illegal mining threaten Amazon Indigenous territory
With mercury increasingly hard to get, illegal gold miners have turned to a cheaper, deadlier alternative.
US lawmakers urge Trump administration to oppose Colombia’s Amazon aerial spraying plans
A group of U.S. lawmakers is urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio not to support Colombia’s plans to restart aerial spraying of coca crops in the Amazon, warning of risks to human health and the environment. The Colombian government says…
Legal loopholes and weak enforcement leave India’s exotic pet trade hard to police
Rising disposable incomes, social media algorithms, and pop culture influences have led to a surge in demand for exotic pets in India, reports Mongabay India’s Arathi Menon. A recent report by the Humane World for Animals (HWA) valued…
In Suriname’s Amazon, the Wayana community struggling to keep gold miners at bay
KAWEMHAKAN, Suriname — Beneath thousands of square kilometers of rainforest here lie vast deposits of gold and other minerals. Around a million ounces are extracted legally every year, but much more remains buried throughout the Amazon. In…
Between revered and hunted: The journey of human-otter coexistence in the Amazon
On a warm, humid morning, along the Içana River in Brazil’s upper Rio Negro Basin, researchers saw a group of Baniwa men heading to the river to check the fishing traps they left in shallow, fast-moving waters. Slightly further downstream…
China’s record-breaking exports of clean tech are making a big dent in emissions, report says
BANGKOK (AP) — China is exporting a record amount of clean energy technology and that is making a dent in global emissions. Interest in renewables has surged due to the energy crisis from the Iran war. A report released Thursday shows that…
‘Already feeling it’: Northern Amazon waterfall season ends early, hurting livelihoods
BOA VISTA, Roraima — “For those who live off the river, water isn’t just scenery: It is also a road, work and income.” That is how tour guide Fredson Guedes, known as “Tarzan,” learned to view the natural world around him over the course…
Early tech warning hopes to give Sumatra’s peat community a head start on fires
MUARO JAMBI, Indonesia — Pineapples rattled around in the basket on the back of Tahang’s motorcycle as he drove through the cracked and dried out peatland in eastern Sumatra’s Muaro Jambi district. Tahang later pulled up beside local…
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