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Brazil boosts protection of Amazon mangroves with new reserves in Pará state

The new extractive reserves allow resident populations to engage in traditional and sustainable extractive practices such as fishing and hunting, while keeping out big businesses, such as commercial aquaculture or logging.

New technologies to map environmental crime in the Amazon Basin (commentary)

Environmental crime slows climate action, deters investment in nature-based solutions, and undermines the green transition. Around the world, land grabbing, illegal deforestation, illicit mining, poaching and a rash of other crimes are ravaging tropical forests, eroding biodiversity, and reversing sustainable development. Despite growing awareness of the problem, an ecosystem of criminality persists in most major biomes, from the Amazon Basin to […]

Brazil's National Parks See Record Visitors in 2023

Why the Amazon's Small Streams Have a Major Impact on Its Grand Rivers

Give a Village a Mangrove | Hakai Magazine

To protect their mangrove forests and livelihoods, traditional communities in coastal Brazil set their hopes on small-scale tourism.

Brazil's deforestation 'police' on strike — threatening climate goals

Environmental workers in the government have stopped field operations, and might halt work altogether. Environmental workers in the government have stopped field operations, and might halt work altogether.

Why the Amazon's small streams have a major impact on its grand rivers

An unprecedented time-series study in the basin of the Tapajós River, a major tributary of the Amazon, assesses the level of degradation of small rivers threatened by agribusiness expansion.

Brazil's Battle Against Wildcat Gold Mining Threatening the Amazon

Brazil's Battle Against Wildcat Gold Mining Threatening the AmazonLead: In the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

Nature's silent scream

Rampant fires have engulfed the Pantanal in Brazil, devastating endangered species and indigenous communities.

Study suggests solutions to reduce impact of lionfish in Brazil