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Deforestation

January 2025

  • Aerial view of a low-rise town with wide roads sprawling for miles

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    From the ashes: how a mayor beat the loggers to turn the Amazon green again

    Once known for landgrabs, shootouts and slash-and-burn farming, Paragominas has halted deforestation to become a model of sustainable growth in a region charred by wildfires

December 2024

  • A man’s back can just been seen through thick forest.

    Uncontacted people
    Brazil’s mysterious ‘man of the hole’ is dead. Should his land remain protected?

  • A picture of a man walking though dense tree cover

    Uncontacted people
    ‘They knew that we were here’: following in the footsteps of the uncontacted Pardo River Kawahiva people

  • A group of naked Indigenous men, some carrying implements, in thick rainforest.

    Uncontacted people
    Photographs reveal first glimpse of uncontacted Amazon community

  • A cows near a tree in a green pasture

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Can Colombia’s ‘crazy’ cattle ranchers make beef an eco-friendly choice?

  • Protection deal for Amazon rainforest in peril as big business turns up heat

  • Land degradation expanding by 1m sq km a year, study shows

November 2024

  • a sign reads 'BlackRock'

    BlackRock accused of contributing to climate and human rights abuses

    OECD complaint alleges top firm has increased investments in companies implicated in environmental devastation
  • Four children walk along a dried up river in the Amazon

    Severe drought puts nearly half a million children at risk in Amazon – report

    Warming climate has caused rivers used for transport to dry up, leaving children with little food, water or school access, says Unicef
  • Composite image of Ángela Maldonado, Fernando Trujillo, Sandra Bessudo and Rosamira Guillen

    The age of extinction
    Death threats, bodyguards and a Farc commander called Smurf: living dangerously with Colombia’s nature defenders

    Leading Colombian conservationists share their experiences working in the most dangerous country to fight for wildlife

October 2024

  • A group of 12 people on a stage in front of a sign saying 'Let's make Peace with Nature'

    The age of extinction
    Alarm grows over ‘disturbing’ lack of progress to save nature at Cop16

  • People sit outdoors watching TV while others cook on a fire

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Solar power to the people: how the sun is bringing light – and TV – to Amazon villages

  • A reforestation project

    Corporations using ‘ineffectual’ carbon offsets are slowing path to ‘real zero’, more than 60 climate scientists say

  • Protesters hold placards, one in Spanish, the other saying 'Which side are you on? Amazon or oil and gas

    The age of extinction
    Biodiversity declining even faster in ‘protected’ areas, scientists warn Cop16

  • The age of extinction
    Guardians of the Gibbons: animal-human harmony hangs in the balance

  • The Guardian documentary
    Guardians of the Gibbons: can India save its only ape species from extinction?

  • The age of extinction
    A Colombian warlord became the Amazon rainforest’s most unlikely protector. Now he is cutting it down

  • Smoke pollution from wildfires may be killing an extra 12,000 people a year, new research suggests

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘I’ve seen the dark, fat grease stuck to the leaves’: oil and gas encroach on Peru’s uncontacted peoples

  • The age of extinction
    What happens to the world if forests stop absorbing carbon? Ask Finland

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