Organized crime and illicit economies emerged in 2025 as major drivers worsening deforestation across the Amazon region in ...

New research tries to anticipate road building to identify areas in the Amazon, Asia and Africa that are likely to face ...

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 ...

A Sustainable Forest Management Plan (SFMP) is essential for companies logging in the Amazon to promote the appropriate use of forest resources. However, some plans can be used to hide environmental ...

Imazon has developed AI deforestation prediction models that inform policies and help law enforcement protect the Amazon rainforest, while promoting sustainable economic growth ...

In an unusual development, members of an Amazon tribe who avoid contact with outsiders have been seen entering a village Indigenous advocates find that alarming and a sign of stress as a logging ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Region will struggle to maintain progress on deforestation. Deforestation rates in ...

By Alexandre de Santi In just under a year from now, the world will turn to Belém, Brazil, a city on the edge of the Amazon ...

Smoke rises from a fire near a logging area in the Transamazonica highway region, in the municipality of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File) AGUA CLARA, ...

Rates of deforestation decreased significantly during the last year in Colombia and Brazil, two Amazonian nations that have historically been among the 10 countries with the highest forest loss in the ...

Eight South American countries failed to agree on a common goal to save the critically vulnerable Amazon from deforestation following a landmark summit in Brazil Tuesday, a concerning outcome as the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, according to ...