A new analysis finds gold mining has shortened the Malinowski River and sullied its water.
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International certification organization orders Peruvian palm oil plantation to stop
According to the RSPO’s complaints panel, Plantaciones de Pucallpa is failing to respect customary land rights and clearing primary forest.
Keeping Amazon fish connected is key to their conservation
Unless a system-wide approach to conservation is applied to Amazon basin lakes, floodplains and rivers, we could soon see a collapse of the region’s fish populations.
Brazil is scaling back its protected area network. What is the impact?
How much of Brazil’s rising deforestation rate in the Amazon is attributable to the legal process known as Protected Area Downgrading, Downsizing and Degazettement (PADDD)?
Brazil’s Congress moves ahead to end nation’s environmental safeguards
Constitutional amendment would abolish current federal requirements for environmental assessments of public works projects, such as Amazon dams.
Indigenous and forest community tour the EU to call for conflict-free palm oil
Leaders from indigenous and forest communities in Colombia, Indonesia, Liberia, and Peru are in London to call for action on human rights violations and land grabbing linked to the global trade in palm oil.
Amazon infrastructure ethics, sustainability and hydropower: mission impossible?
Scientists analysed the Peruvian Inambari dam’s Environmental Impact Assessment to see if company ethics were driven by sustainability or profit.
Booming soy industry could threaten Brazil’s climate commitments
Soy production is booming — but researchers are warning that the soy industry’s rise could be the downfall of Brazil’s climate commitments.
Iriri River families fight to keep their Amazonian homelands
As new ecological stations and other preserves are set up across Brazil, rural colonos and beiradeiros may be forced from their long-time homesteads.
Peru’s climate commitments threatened by advancing oil palm
The way Peru is pushing the production of oil palm in the Amazon is weakening these pledges.