1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (455+ words) Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, or INPE, detected 370 square kilometers of deforestation in May through its DETER alert system. That is down from 960 square kilometers in May 2025, a decline of about 61%. May is an important month in the Amazon…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (277+ words) In Santa Elena she was known as a citizen watchdog, an environmental defender, and a neighbor who kept asking why public decisions were made as they were. She spoke about mangroves, protected species, and the rights of rural communities. People…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (349+ words) Butler Nature When Rainforest Action Network began in 1985, it had little of what usually makes an organization powerful. It had no large budget, no legal department, no steady access to politicians, and no formal way to force corporations or development…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (194+ words) The victims, he said, were first the water, then the salmon and other life that depended on it, and then the people who depended on them. He spoke from a life spent moving between law enforcement, ceremony, public service, and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (395+ words) For protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon, one basic question is often overlooked: is there enough money to manage what lies inside the boundary? A reserve may exist in law. It may appear on maps and in official counts of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (331+ words) In the Amazon, a forest can remain on the map while losing much of what makes it function. Deforestation, carbon, protected areas, and tipping points are useful measures, but they do not fully explain why biodiversity continues to decline where…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (251+ words) To Mike Salisbury, patience was not a virtue so much as a working method. Lions did not hunt on cue. Plants did not move at a human pace. Polar bears did not respect production schedules, or much else. The task…...

4+ week, 50+ min ago  (377+ words) For more than a decade he helped defend the Anapog Marine Protected Area and the wider Ta'on Strait Protected Seascape. The work was often dangerous. Volunteers patrolled in small boats, reported violations, organized clean-ups, and helped restore mangroves. They also…...

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1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (350+ words) Conservation often sounds most persuasive when it is described as a plan. There are maps, budgets, governance models, community consultations, monitoring frameworks and theories of change. All are necessary. None is sufficient on their own. Luis Arranz, who has spent…...