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Brazil has set itself a target of restoring almost 50,000 sq km of the Amazon rainforest by 2030. But it won’t get there without changing its policies and how it engages with local people.
The Amazon’s largest dam is nearly complete. But the social and environmental costs of huge hydropower projects are just not worth it.
Rivers are natural boundaries for evolving populations. But scientists don’t agree whether they create new species or just help maintain them. Research using birds’ molecular clocks provides some answers.
In 2016, Venezuela opened up a large swath of the country to mining in an effort to prop up its economy. Now it is paying the environmental price.
Indigenous communities lived in the Amazon for thousands of years without chopping down their forests.
Pioneering chefs from Bolivia to Brazil are stepping out of the kitchen and into public service. The ‘social gastronomy’ movement uses food to create jobs, prevent violence and boost economies.
A mythical Amazonia of lost tribes or lost cities is easy to challenge on a factual basis, but such objections appear rather feeble in the face of the power of cliché.
Three researchers studied the “crop raiders” of the Brazilian rainforest in the hope of aiding both local farmers and wildlife conservation.
Forest fires emit twice as much carbon in the Brazilian Amazon as deforestation, according to new research.
Promises to consult with indigenous groups are routinely ignored as Peru eyes up the natural resources found in its rainforests.
A neoliberal development plan threatens the biological and cultural integrity of Peru’s Amazon rainforests.
Brazil has been throwing money at Amazonian cattle farmers, hoping they’ll adopt ‘greener’ crops like fruit or corn. A new study shows why loans won’t fix the environmental issue presented by ranches.
Brazil claims mining and logging will boost the economy and help it protect the environment. But there is little evidence this works.
Last week Brazil opened thousands of kilometres of previously protected Amazon rainforest to mining, in a bid to combat ongoing political and economic disasters.
A new survey has identified millions of hectares of forest in dryland areas, a finding that boosts the total global forest cover by 9% and has significant consequences for carbon budgets.
Scientists from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe take on the White House with facts from the ground they stand on.
New research shows how ancient rainforest cultures have left their mark on today’s plantlife.
Bird diversity may be the secret to forest resilience.
Land animals were able to find refuge in the depths of the forest. But aquatic species weren’t so lucky.
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Professor of Conservation Science, Lancaster University
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Senior Research Associate in Tropical Forest Ecology, University of Oxford
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Researcher in Ecology, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA); Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)
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Reader in Ecology and Conservation Biology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Moran Professor of Conservation and Development, University of Cambridge
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
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Professor, former dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria., University of Victoria
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Associate professor, University of British Columbia
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Executive Director of the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University; King's College London
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Professor of Tropical Conservation Ecology, University of East Anglia
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Research fellow, The University of Western Australia
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UKRI Future Leaders Fellow / SeniorLecturer, University of Bristol
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Research Associate, Conservation Evidence, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
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Directrice de recherche CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)