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 ...

In the heart of the Colombian Amazon, the towering mountains of the Serranía del Chiribiquete harbor secrets including South ...

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

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

as it eliminates the need for state authorization before converting forest land, potentially accelerating Amazon deforestation. Critics argue it legitimizes illegal deforestation, threatening ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation ... the second-largest share of ...

The week before, Santarém had registered ... to a historically steep decline in deforestation by barring signatory companies from purchasing soy grown on land in the Amazon that was deforested after ...