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Amazon rainforest

July 2024

  • The National Serrania de Chiribique Park, Guaviare, Colombia, 2019.

    Deforestation in Colombia falls to lowest level in 23 years

    Government reports 36% decrease, with most gains in Amazon forest where conservation efforts are focused
  • A photographic collage showing the colours of Guyana's flag, a map of Guyana, oil pipelines, deforestation and some of the people featured in the article

    The Latin oil rush
    Guyana banks on future as a ‘new Qatar’ in high-stakes gamble over oil production

    With newfound oil wealth reshaping the economy, can the country balance growth with sustainable development?
  • Calanoa Amazonas Birding Mocagua Lagoon

    To the end of the Amazon in Brazil: ‘there are forms of life here that I never knew existed’

    On the final leg of his Amazon adventure, our writer arrives in Brazil, where he looks at efforts to revive tribal cultures and to protect wildlife in the world’s most fascinating environmental battleground

June 2024

  • Rangers from Brazil’s environmental protection agency, Ibama, launch a major offensive against illegal mining gangs operating near the Javari valley Indigenous territory, where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed. Photo by João Laet / The Guardian

    ‘Tomorrow’s our D-day’: on the frontline of the fight to save the Amazon

  • Nemonte Nenquimo

    Ecuador’s president won’t give up on oil drilling in the Amazon. We plan to stop him – again

    Nemonte Nenquimo
  • View above the Amazon rainforest

    World’s top banks ‘greenwashing their role in destruction of the Amazon’

  • A female widow holds hands with indigenous people encircling a tree

    ‘We want to forge ahead’: grief and defiance as Dom Phillips’ widow journeys to site of his death

May 2024

  • Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo, carries her people’s lawsuit in her hands during a march towards the Provincial courthouse in Puyo, Pastaza, Ecuadorian Amazon.

    Book of the day
    We Will Not Be Saved by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson review – voice of the Amazon

    There’s great joy as well as pain in this luminous story of Indigenous life and the battle against exploitation
  • Nemonte Nenquimo

    ‘I want people to wake up’: Nemonte Nenquimo on growing up in the rainforest and her fight to save it

    The Indigenous campaigner won a historic legal victory to protect Waorani land in the Amazon rainforest. Now she has written a groundbreaking memoir
    • More than third of Amazon rainforest struggling to recover from drought, study finds

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      ‘Just by breathing we are contaminated’: schoolgirls fight to extinguish Ecuador’s gas flares

    • Disease and hunger soar in Latin America after floods and drought, study finds

April 2024

  • View of tree tops in the jungle

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

  • Beto Marubo and Bruno Pereira speaking with the Indigenous peoples of the Korubo tribe in the Javari valley, in 2015.

    Epidemic fears as 80% of Indigenous Amazon tribe fall ill

March 2024

  • Composite picture of a photo of a man using a scalpel to pick at a huge crocodile-like skull, and a drawing of  adolphin in brown water seizing prey

    The age of extinction
    Scientists find skull of enormous ancient dolphin in Amazon

    Fossil of giant river dolphin found in Peru, whose closest living relation is in South Asia, gives clues to future extinction threats

February 2024

  • Vagner Javaé, the chief of the Javaé people

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘In Bananal, God no longer decides whether there’s water – farmers and agribusiness do’

    Brazil’s Bananal Island lies where the biodiversity hotspots of the Amazon and Cerrado meet, yet traditional Indigenous food sources are disappearing. What went wrong?
  • Muddy coloured river running through dense green forest

    Amazon rainforest could reach ‘tipping point’ by 2050, scientists warn

    ‘We need to respond now,’ says author of study that says crucial forest has already passed safe boundary and needs restoration
    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      ‘I photographed the world’: the art of Sebastião Salgado – in pictures

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      Photographer Sebastião Salgado at 80: ‘They say I was an aesthete of misery’

    • Brazil’s nut-breakers refuse to crack as their precious palms are threatened

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