About half the countries in the region are experiencing a rush in oil exploration that threatens the global drive to achieve net zero. But many argue that they have a right to enrich themselves in the same way the west has

Communities such as the Saamaka are vocal in opposition to increased mining and logging – but has the country’s claim to fame as the most forested in the world already been fatally undermined?

Secretive Christian sect poised to carve big farms out of the Amazon, despite concerns of Indigenous people about the settlers’ deforestation elsewhere in Latin America

Coronavirus has stalled opposition’s momentum against president who was recently found guilty of mass murder as country heads into an election

Some observers see increasing Chinese business and cultural influence in the former Dutch colony as a test base for its wider Amazonian ambitions