All news on the topic: Amazonia

The taxi shudders uphill into a forest teeming with life. Palm fronds sag over the road like heavy, slick hands, and flashes of green birds flicker between the trees.

When a plane crashed in the Amazon jungle carrying four young children, there was little hope of finding them alive.

Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor, real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested in July 2023 for illegally exporting 294 kilos of gold from Brazil’s Amazon to the United States, Dubai and Italy.

Police in the Brazilian state of Pará detained seven suspects believed to be involved in the illegal extraction and sale of Amazon timber, a crime that affects the entire world’s population as deforestation in the Amazon contributes to climate change.

Ecuador has shown severe inconsistencies between its official production of gold of known origin and its exports.