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 ...

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 ...

A report from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) tracked the equivalent of 1,828 shipping containers of illegal wood sourced in the state of Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon. Nearly 3% of this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...