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The psychology of climate traps and how to avoid them

Each year, the world loses around 5 million hectares of forest, with 95% of this deforestation occurring in tropical regions. South America is a major hotspot, with Brazil in particular facing severe forest loss — much of it driven by cattle ranching, which accounts for more than 70% of all…

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The Guardian view on protecting the Amazon: forest defenders must have support

Editorial: Dom Phillips’ posthumously published book is an urgent reminder of why this unique landscape matters so much

The Guardian - UK

How to Save the Amazon by Dom Phillips review – tracing the late journalist’s footprints

A team of writers complete the vital book that Guardian reporter Dom Phillips was working on at the time of his murder

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France to build high-security jail in Amazon to isolate drug traffickers from gangs

The country's Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin announced the €400-million scheme during a visit to French Guiana on Sunday.

Euronews

Amazonian communities in Peru rejoice as plan for oil drilling on ancestral land stalls

Peru’s state-run oil company failed to attract any bids to develop an oil field that overlaps ancestral territories of several Indigenous groups

The Independent UK

Long-term drought could cause ‘profound change’ in Amazon rainforest – study

Researchers believe climate change may cause the death of large trees and reduce the area’s ability to act as a carbon sink.

Evening Standard

Brazil slaughterhouses reduce ties to Amazon deforestation, but cattle laundering remains issue

A report of Brazil’s Amazon beef industry published reveals that slaughterhouses complying with a settlement agreement are far more likely to follow laws prohibiting the purchase of cattle from illegally deforested land

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Ecuador's Waorani demand court action over Amazon oil projects

Leaders of Ecuador’s Waorani Indigenous community gathered at Quito's Constitutional Court on Tuesday, urging recognition of territorial rights threatened by government-backed oil projects.

Euronews

‘Leo will follow Francis’: Catholics in the Amazon hope new pope will protect the rainforest

Amazon Catholics say the new pope is needed at COP30 in Brazil later this year.

Euronews

'Leo will follow Francis.' Amazon Catholics hope the new pope will protect the rain forest

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with interfaith environmental networks and Indigenous organizations to place forest protection and rights at the center of Church concern

The Independent UK

Colombia takes regional lead in Indigenous self-government, raising hopes for Amazon protection

Colombia has taken a major step in Indigenous rights by formally recognizing Indigenous councils as local governments across parts of the Amazon

The Independent UK

Head of Brazil's gas giant Petrobras criticized for 'drill, baby, drill!' comment about the Amazon

Environmentalists slammed the president of Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras, Magda Chambriard after she echoed the phrase “Drill, baby, drill!”

The Independent UK

The construction of a road in Brazil draws criticism before first-ever climate talks in the Amazon

The construction of a road is drawing attention in the run-up to the annual U.N. climate conference in Brazil

The Independent UK

Brazilian state's deforestation amnesty poses 'one of the greatest threats' to the Amazon

Brazil’s Amazon state of Rondonia has passed a law in favor of cattle ranchers who converted a large area of rainforest inside the Jaci-Parana conservation zone and turned it into pasture

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Mennonite Communities Raise Hackles In Peruvian Amazon

When they saw men with arrows and machetes bearing down on them, Daniel Braun and other Mennonites living in the Peruvian Amazon fled across rice paddies, some of their barns ablaze behind them.

The Independent UK

Hope floats in the Amazon as Bacuri, a young manatee, fights for survival

In a protected part of the Amazon, Bacuri, a young manatee that was found stranded and alone, is being raised in captivity

LiveScience

El Cono: The mysterious sacred 'pyramid' hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest

Cerro El Cono is a solitary, pyramidal hill in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest whose origins remain mysterious and that holds spiritual significance for Indigenous people.

The Independent UK

Brazilian justice orders government to seize lands with proven illegal deforestation

A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to seize private properties when owners are found responsible for illegal wildfires or deforestation

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The Guardian - UK

Will Cop30 in Belém help or harm the Amazon?

Trees are being cleared for rainforest mega-event – but state governor says a ‘new history’ is under way

The Guardian - US

Green groups decry plan to list world’s biggest meatpacking company on NYSE

Critics fear decision to list Brazil-based firm JBS, long linked to Amazon’s deforestation, will add to the climate crisis

The Guardian - UK

Indigenous river campaigner from Peru wins prestigious Goldman prize

Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari led a successful legal battle to protect the Marañon River in the Peruvian Amazon

The Guardian - UK

Bibles, bullets and beef: Amazon cowboy culture at odds with Brazil’s climate goals

As the first climate summit in the Amazon approaches, a gulf is opening between what the area’s farming lobby wants, and what the world needs

The Guardian - UK

The life and death of a ‘laundered’ cow in the Amazon rainforest

Cattle moved between ranches, allowing meat from farms linked to deforestation to end up on supermarket shelves

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: world’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges again

Brazilian ranchers in Pará and Rondônia say JBS can not achieve stated goal of deforestation-free cattle

The Conversation

Amplifying delusions: How social media can negatively impact our mental well-being

Imagine a tribe of uncontacted hunter-gatherers in the deepest Amazon rainforest. Anthropologists airdrop dozens of smartphones loaded with social media apps, with solar chargers, simple instructions in their native language and Wi-Fi just within the tribe. What would happen to their culture and their mental health?

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