Increased risk for logging workers and Indigenous peoples Survival International last year released photos showing dozens of Mashco Piro close to active logging zones. The group warns that contact ...

Local patrols in the Amazon are leading a conservation success story, protecting forests and wildlife against growing threats ...

Selective forest cutting in the Amazon is on the rise, according to data released on Friday by the Brazilian government. INPE reported a 77% increase in the rate of cutting that’s typically associated ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s ongoing military-led operation to curb illegal deforestation and fires in the Amazon rainforest will end April 30, Vice President Hamilton Mourão said at the World ...

Brazilian authorities have busted a logging ring that used fake permits to cut 500,000 trees in the Amazon rainforest, reports Reuters. 155 illegal loggers were involved in the ring, which used ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists ...