PORTO VELHO, Brazil - Brazilian environmental agents seized the equivalent of more than 5,000 truckloads of timber in an operation targeting one of the most heavily logged regions of the Amazon ...

Johan Eliasch, a Swedish-British billionaire better known for building a global sportswear empire, made an unexpected move in 2005. He bought around 400,000 acres of Amazon rainforest in Brazil, not ...

BOGOTA — Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rain forest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists consider an ...

Between June 23 and July 6, 2025, police forces from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru joined forces in a cross-border law enforcement initiative targeting environmental crimes like illegal mining, ...

Learn about what threatens the wet, layered forest and what you can do to help. 2 min read More than half of Earth’s rain ...

Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds The growing extraction of rainforest resources is pushing the Amazon and similar ...