The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

A Brazilian non-profit has created a new model for land ownership that welcomes both local people and scientists to collaborate in preserving the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical forest

In today’s newsletter: A key campaign promise of the Brazilian president was to reverse the rapid destruction of the rainforest under Jair Bolsonaro, but his commitment is yet to be tested

Brazil's federal police recommended misconduct charges be filed on Friday against two ex-officials of Indigenous agency Funai in the case of a journalist and a native expert murdered last June in the Amazon rainforest.

Colombians are on edge as a search continues for four Indigenous children who may have survived a deadly plane crash in the Amazon jungle on May 1

Marcelo Xavier accused of indirectly contributing on the grounds that he failed to take steps to protect workers in Amazon

Imagine governments were to simply transfer money, unconditionally, to people living in or using key conservation areas throughout the world, from Indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest to cattle herders roaming the plains of East Africa or fisherfolk living in coastal Indonesia. This is the conservation basic income, or CBI,…

A small aircraft was flying between Araracuara in Amazonas province and San Jose del Guaviare, a city in Guaviare province when it disappeared over two weeks ago in Colombia

Colombia’s president tweeted children have been found two weeks after crash – but later retracted the statement

Brazil’s environmental regulator has refused to grant a license for a controversial offshore oil drilling project near the mouth of the Amazon River, prompting celebration from environmentalists who had warned of its potential impact

The seven-day trip will see Mr Cleverly travel to Jamaica, Colombia, Chile and Brazil and announce climate and security funding.

Kambô is an oozy substance harvested from the defensive skin secretions of the Amazonian giant monkey tree frog. In the traditional medicine of some indigenous peoples of the Amazon, Kambô is applied to superficial burns on the skin of participants to produce an intense purging effect.