Take a flight of discovery and witness the devastating impact of the Amazon Rainforest fires in Brazil through powerful drone ...

Advocacy groups have pushed regulators to block JBS’ bid, noting its history of corruption charges, illegal deforestation and ...

Biomas, a Brazilian reforestation venture backed by several corporate heavyweights, on Friday unveiled its first project, aiming to restore 1,200 hectares (2,965 acres) of Brazil's coastal Atlantic ...

Dozens of indigenous nations from different countries are calling for an oil drilling ban in the world's largest rainforest ...

The Amazon rainforest is in trouble. According to Earth.com, 1,539 square miles of it, or an area around five times the size ...

New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest.

Pupy the elephant has arrived at her new home in a sanctuary in Mato Grosso, Brazil, following a 2,700-kilometer journey from ...

Everyone does it.” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal ...

Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

The amendment eliminates the requirement that landowners or companies get state authorization before converting forested land ...

The team captured two Furipterus horrens — a type of “thumbless bat”— marking the first time the species has ever been recorded in the Ecuadorian Andes or found outside the Amazon ...

Image by Ingrid Barros/Mongabay. An ongoing Brazilian government operation launched in February has removed between 1,000 and 2,000 illegal head of cattle from the Arariboia Indigenous Territory in ...