By Elodie Toto This article was produced with the support of the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network in ...

It's entirely possible for rainforests to look good in satellite images even though logging, mining or road-building mean they have become poor homes to species able to thrive only in the absence ...

Illegal gold mining in southeastern Peru has fueled the destruction of a massive swath of rainforest and the killing of dozens of environmental activists. By Lisa Cavazuti, Cynthia McFadden ...

Beneath the Amazon rainforest lies treasure ... the price of gold has continued to soar and rampant illegal gold mining has destroyed swathes of jungle from Ecuador across Peru, Colombia and ...

While deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon plunged during that period, the rainforest remains under threat from land grabbing, illegal gold mining, diminishing rainfall, and outbreaks of fire ...

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest rose sharply last month as the country prepared to send troops to try to curb illegal logging and mining. Brazil's space research agency said the area ...

“Illegal gold mining is expanding rapidly ... In Brazil, large swaths of the rainforest were draped in smoke in August from fires raging across the Amazon, Cerrado savannah, Pantanal wetland ...

vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous communities that live in and care for it have been subjected to increasing violence and a rapid increase in illegal gold mining, encouraged ...

The government of Brazil have taken steps to remove the rights of rainforest people. The current president, Jair Bolsonaro wants to use the land for farming and mining. The country of New Zealand ...