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The environmental news site since 1991
Nearly six years have passed since Indigenous forest guardian Paulo Paulino Guajajara was killed and his colleague Laércio Guajajara was wounded in what authorities believe was an ambush by illegal loggers in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. Yet the two suspects charged…
The upcoming COP30 climate conference in Brazil is poised to make history with unprecedented Indigenous participation. More than 3,000 Indigenous leaders from around the world have registered for the November 10-21 summit in Belém, Brazil—a city that serves as the…
Brazilian Federal Police have charged 31 individuals in what authorities are calling the country’s largest carbon credit fraud operation to date. The criminal scheme, uncovered through “Operation Greenwashing,” involved fraudulent carbon credits while simultaneously laundering illegal timber from the Amazon…
Cambodia’s coastline is facing an environmental emergency as a perfect storm of illegal fishing, unregulated development, and inadequate government oversight pushes marine ecosystems toward collapse. Traditional fishing communities that have depended on these waters for generations are watching their livelihoods…
Judicial corruption across Amazon nations is severely hampering efforts to combat environmental crimes, creating a culture of impunity that threatens the world’s largest rainforest. From the Andean republics to Brazil, compromised court systems are failing to hold environmental criminals accountable,…
