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.

Grassroots approaches can protect tropical forests in Brazil and Senegal.

Brazil's environment minister Ricardo Salles has been met with opposition at every stage of his European tour.

Protesters in London will stand in solidarity with Indigenous groups on Thursday 3 October to show Ricardo Salles, the Brazilian environment minister, he is not welcome.

UK purchased £1bn of beef from firms tied to Amazon deforestation.

New documentary, Second Chances, shows how even the most unlikely people can become environmental defenders.