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Deforestation

August 2024
  • Fire illuminates smoke rising above a nighttime horizon of trees on a lake

    Wildfires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetland fuelled ‘by climate disruption’

    Devastation in Brazil wetlands was made at least four times more likely by fossil fuel use and deforestation, scientists say
July 2024
  • Close up of a saltwater crocodile's eye in the Mangroves

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Roots and refuge: the year’s best mangrove images – in pictures

  • Cattle on a farm in Para state, Brazil.

    Brazilian rancher ordered to pay $50m for damage to Amazon

  • Trees in dense forest

    Australia’s major food companies failing nature, report finds

  • Geoffrey Lean

    How the Observer helped save Scotland’s bogs from destruction

    Geoffrey Lean

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Crisis at Tres Fronteras: how criminal syndicates threaten Amazon’s future

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Just give me 30 men and a few arms’: Honduran Indigenous groups ready to fight to save land

  • Deforestation in Colombia falls to lowest level in 23 years

  • The Latin oil rush
    Guyana banks on future as a ‘new Qatar’ in high-stakes gamble over oil production

  • ‘Surely we are smarter than mowing down 1,000-year-old trees to make T-shirts’ – the complex rise of viscose

June 2024
  • A sign in tropical jungle that reads in English: "This is a protected area. Entry is barred by law"

    The age of extinction
    Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study

    Study identifies 16,825 sites around the world where prioritising conservation would prevent extinction of thousands of unique species
  • Rangers from Brazil’s environmental protection agency, Ibama, launch a major offensive against illegal mining gangs operating near the Javari valley Indigenous territory, where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed. Photo by João Laet / The Guardian

    ‘Tomorrow’s our D-day’: on the frontline of the fight to save the Amazon

    A Brazilian special forces unit marks the second anniversary of the murders of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips with what they hope will be a famous offensive against the criminals obliterating the greatest tropical rainforest on Earth

    • First Dog on the Moon
      Who do these Europeans think they are trying to ban goods from areas where land clearing occurs?

    • The age of extinction
      Rare birds at risk as narco-gangs move into forests to evade capture – report

    • World’s top banks ‘greenwashing their role in destruction of the Amazon’

May 2024
  • Nemonte Nenquimo

    ‘I want people to wake up’: Nemonte Nenquimo on growing up in the rainforest and her fight to save it

    The Indigenous campaigner won a historic legal victory to protect Waorani land in the Amazon rainforest. Now she has written a groundbreaking memoir
  • Two people in blue protective overalls and masks use absorbent pads to wipe oil from a small mangrove on a beach

    The age of extinction
    Half of world’s mangrove forests are at risk due to human behaviour – study

    The loss of the ecosystems, which are vast stores of carbon, would ‘be disastrous for nature and people across the globe’, says IUCN

    • The rural network
      Move to protect Australian beef industry from EU land clearing laws criticised by scientists

    • Malaysia plans to give orangutans to countries that buy palm oil

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests?

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