Federal crackdown on environmental crimes and a gold rally that’s sent prices to record highs has driven the industry into ...

His single-propeller Cessna plane was loaded with more than 100 pounds of gold ... the Amazon. The haul, worth more than $4 million at today’s prices, had been pulled out of the rainforest ...

Once estimated as 20,000 in the territory, hundreds of illegal miners still remain and may expand business at the slightest ...

Rodrigo Agostinho, head of IBAMA, Brazil's federal environmental agency, for two years now, spoke with Mongabay about the ...

Juan Pablo Vaquero was pronounced dead in the Peruvian Amazonian city of Iquitos in the first wave of COVID-19 in April 2020.

Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada Founder & Administrator – Global Hospitality Forum ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest ... a consultant for Crisis Group in Latin America. “Illegal gold mining is expanding rapidly, driven by soaring global prices, and the revenues ...

On the border between Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, a common front comprised of Colombian dissidents, Brazilian organized crime groups and Peruvian drug traffickers is overwhelming the authorities ...

Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to ...

By Kimberley Brown Intense protests flared up last December in communities opposed to Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s ...