The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

At the ACTO summit in Belem do Para, Brazil, leaders from Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana called for cooperation to protect the Amazon rainforest. The “Belem declaration” promised concerted efforts to arrest deforestation, protect Indigenous people’s rights and invite development banks to pool funds for conservation…

Colombian officials say they have arrested the father of two of the four Indigenous children who survived a plane crash that killed their mother and two other adults, then survived 40 days on their own in the Amazon jungle

In today’s newsletter: After years of rampant exploitation under a far-right government, Brazil has brought together leaders to help secure the future of the world’s biggest rainforest – and create ‘a just ecological transition’

As representatives from nations that span the Amazon rainforest gather in Brazil to discuss protecting a region critical to countering climate change, Indigenous people are a constant presence reminding them of the stakes

As representatives from nations that span the Amazon rainforest gather in Brazil to discuss protecting a region critical to countering climate change, Indigenous people are a constant presence reminding them of the stakes

Brazilian president says developed nations that over centuries have pumped emissions into the atmosphere must ‘pay their bit’

Editorial: The election of the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has changed the environmental politics of the region. But more international assistance is needed

Donors from industrialised nations were under pressure on Wednesday at a top level conference on the Amazon to do more to help preserve the world's largest rainforest.

Eight South American presidents including Brazil’s Lula say rich countries need to pledge more resources to help protect rainforest

Eight Amazon nations have called on industrialized countries to do more to help preserve the world’s largest rainforest as they meet in a major summit in Brazil to seek to chart a common course on how to combat climate change

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sets out ambitious programme to repair damage done by Bolsonaro and tackle environmental crime