News from the Amazon

Can Brazil and France jointly keep Indigenous populations and protected areas safe from illegal gold-mining damages?

Brazilian children show they opt for new renewable forms of energy

President Dilma Rousseff will receive 29 letters chosen from over 2,000 competition submissions

Brazil confirmed drop in annual deforestation rates

The virtuous cycle of Brazil in monitoring Amazon deforestation should be applied in other Amazon ...

Legal decision gives a break for conservation of the Tapajos basin in the Brazilian Amazon

Debate over the construction of more dams in the Amazon heats up

Report points out twists in the Brazilian energy sector

The report points out that the huge potential of solar and wind energy is disregarded in public ...

Peru creates three new Amazon protected areas

Peru has created three new protected areas in the northern Amazon territory of Loreto, covering an ...

Amazon Ecosystem-based Conservation Vision implementing the biodiversity Aichi Targets

The 20 Aichi Targets seek to address the underlying causes of biodiversity loss by mainstreaming ...

River dolphin declared Bolivia’s natural heritage

Bolivia’s parliament last month declared that the pink river dolphin or “Bolivian bufeo” (Inia ...

Marina Silva awarded Honorary Membership of the IUCN

During its World Conservation Congress, held in Jeju, Korea, the International Union for ...

Key meeting: indigenous leaders from the Amazon aim towards the conservation of their forests

Indigenous peoples inhabit, and conserve, 25% of the Amazon. Their lands register lower ...