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Visible deforestation from illegal mining surrounds the Quito River, near Paimado, Colombia, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

Five Amazon countries arrest hundreds in major crackdown on environmental crime

Authorities from five Amazon countries have arrested hundreds in a major crackdown on environmental crime.

The Teatro Amazonas is visible at dusk in Manaus, Brazil, May 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

UNESCO adds Brazil’s Amazonia theaters to the World Heritage List

Ashaninka's territory sits along the winding Amonia River in Acre state, Brazil, June 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)

Brazil’s government says it is working with Peru to protect border Indigenous lands

Ashaninka Indigenous people from Brazil and Peru dance and sing at dawn during the annual celebration recognizing the Ashaninka territory in the Apiwtxa village, Acre state, Brazil, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)

A model Indigenous territory in Brazil’s Amazon seeks protection from criminal gangs

Colombia's Environmental Minister Irene Vélez Torres talks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Botanical Garden Jose Celestino Mutis in Bogota, Colombia, April 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Outgoing Colombia minister warns climate gains could be at risk under new government

Brazil uses forensic science to trace gold’s origin and tackle illegal mining in the Amazon

Brazil is using forensic science to tackle illegal gold mining in the Amazon, a top threat to the rainforest, Indigenous groups and other communities there that has accelerated deforestation and driven mercury contamination to dangerous levels. (AP Video by Eduardo François. Produced by Teresa de Miguel)

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Colombia’s vote may reshape the Amazon’s future as political winds shift across Latin America

A conflict over cattle in Brazil’s Amazon highlights tensions for Indigenous peoples

Colombia’s presidential runoff could reshape the future of the Amazon and fossil fuel development

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A boat, with gasoline to be taken to illegal mining machinery, maneuvers past an area that was mined and is being reforested by Asociacion Nuestra Casa Comun, or Our Community House Association, near Paimado, Colombia, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

Colombia’s vote may reshape the Amazon’s future as political winds shift across Latin America

Indigenous chief Cleiton Javae walks in his community at the Txuiri village on Bananal Island in Formoso do Araguaia, Tocantins state, Brazil, Thursday, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

A conflict over cattle in Brazil’s Amazon highlights tensions for Indigenous peoples

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrives at the Amazon Regional Observatory of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, June 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil reports drop in Amazon deforestation rates, pushing back on US tariff accusations

Cows graze as a wildfire burns in Soacha, near Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Colombia passes law to track cattle and keep deforestation-linked beef out of supply chains

People walk through a part of the Amazon River that shows signs of drought in Santa Sofia, on the outskirts of Leticia, Colombia, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

Colombia’s presidential runoff could impact the future of the Amazon rainforest and fossil fuels

This photo provided by the Brazilian Federal Justice shows a truck driving past buildings in Fordlandia, Para, Brazil, Dec. 6, 2021. (Ianara Duarte/Brazilian Federal Justice via AP)

Brazilian court orders restoration of Fordlandia, Henry Ford’s Amazon ghost town

A man walks down an unpaved stretch of highway BR-319 in the Brazilian Amazon between the cities of Manaus and Porto Velho on Aug. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Fabiano Maisonnave, File)

Brazil to invest $75 million in highway through Amazon, fueling deforestation concerns

A fishing boat sails at the mouth of the Uaca River, in the Uaca Indigenous Territory region, near the mangrove and biodiversity conservation area of Cabo Orange, in Oiapoque, Amapa state, Brazil, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazilian government commits $617.5M to Amazon ecological investment

Helicopters are visible at an illegal mining camp during an operation by Brazil's environmental agency aimed at combating illegal mining in Yanomami Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

Indigenous Amazon groups urge the UN to curb organized crime, not militarize territories

Firefighters work to put out a blaze in the Amazon forest during a drought and high temperatures in the rural municipality of Careiro Castanho, Amazonas state, Brazil, Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat

An illegal mining camp is visible from a Brazil Environmental Agency helicopter during an operation to try to contain illegal mining in Yanomami Indigenous territory, Roraima state, Brazil, Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

A gold-fueled mining rush scars Brazil’s Amazon, spiking deforestation and mercury risks

Grass and flowers surround the Archaeological Park of the Solstice, which some call the "Stonehenge of the Amazon" in Calcoene, Amapa state, Brazil, Friday, March 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Archaeological digs in Amazon provide clues about Indigenous inhabitants before colonization

Deforestation is visible from illegal gold mining in the Madre de Dios province of Peru's Amazon on Jan. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Peru election highlights lack of plans to tackle illegal mining despite growing environmental crisis

Edervan Forte dos Santos, from the Galibi Kali'na community, steers his boat toward mangroves in the biodiversity conservation area of Cabo Orange, in Oiapoque, Amapa state, Brazil, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

‘I’m going there.’ Oil drilling fuels a migrant surge in isolated city in Brazil’s Amazon

Toa Alvarado, left, and Ene Nenquimo walk near an oil pipeline that cuts through the rainforest in Sucumbios, Ecuador, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Indigenous women tour Ecuador oil field as warning against Amazon drilling expansion

A book published by Simon & Schuster is displayed on July 30, 2022, in Tigard, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Simon & Schuster names former Amazon executive Greg Greeley as CEO, succeeding Jonathan Karp

The sun sets behind a plume of smoke rising after a U.S.–Israeli military strike in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry’s vulnerability to physical disasters

In this photo provided by Funai, Babawru Akuntsu, top, rests beside Akyp, her newborn son, at the Regional Hospital of Vilhena in Vilhena, Rondonia state, Brazil on Dec. 9, 2025, one day after the birth. (Altair Algayer/Funai via AP)

With only 3 women left, an Amazon tribe faced extinction. An unexpected birth now brings hope

Peruvian jungle devastated by gold miners is visible in Madre de Dios, Peru, March 5, 2019. (Guadalupe Pardo/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Illegal gold mining surges into new parts of Peru’s Amazon, threatening rivers and lives

Ramon Pucha demonstrates how to turn a leaf into a hat to protect himself from the sun while looking for seeds to grow on his family's farm, where he preserves native species and shares seedlings with neighboring communities in an effort to protect biodiversity, in Alto Ila, in Ecuador's Amazon region, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Seed guardians of the Amazon: A family’s solitary fight to save endangered plants

The Belo Monte hydroelectric dam stands in the Xingu River in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, Sept. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Legal setbacks against a dam in the Amazon raise questions about Brazil’s reliance on hydropower

This image provided by Interpol shows an illegal gold mining site on Dec. 18, 2025, in the Upper Takutu-Upper Esequibo region of Guyana. (Interpol via AP)

Interpol-backed police make nearly 200 arrests in Amazon region gold mining sweep

A section of Amazon rainforest stands next to soy fields in Belterra, Para state, Brazil, Nov. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

Brazil soy industry’s exit from moratorium on using Amazon land could spur deforestation

The Emilio Goeldi Museum, center, is visible in Belem, Brazil, during the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Gangs expand to nearly half the towns in the Brazilian Amazon, report finds

A boat maneuvers near the shore of Barcarena, Brazil, on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Railway project in the Amazon raises questions over Brazil’s efforts to stop deforestation

An Indigenous group blocks an entrance to the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Indigenous groups demand attention at UN climate talks in Brazil

Security personnel stand behind a fence outside the venue for the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Protesters confront security at main venue of UN climate talks

Acai sits in a bowl at a market amid the nearby COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Traditional acai berry dishes surprise visitors to Brazil climate summit, no sugar added

FAn aerial view of fshing boats in the port of the Caju Una community, Marajo Island, Para state, Brazil, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil stumps up billions of dollars for its ambitious rainforest fund at UN climate summit

Dredging barges operated by illegal miners converge on the Madeira River, a tributary of the Amazon river, searching for gold, in Autazes, Amazonas state, Brazil, Nov. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown

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