The Latest Breaking News from Amazon

The president-elect faces deep political division, and Bolsonaro still has two more months in power

Spurred by Lula’s election, the three countries, home to half of all tropical forests, will pledge stronger conservation efforts

One year after more than 140 countries pledged to halt all deforestation by 2030, little has been done to finance protections or pass new conservation laws, experts say.

Indigenous leaders have denounced the dire situation in their communities after oil spills have affected their access to clean water and food

Group of more than 100 including British and American travellers were detained in protest over government response to oil spill

Lima (AFP) - Members of an Indigenous group on Friday freed more than 100 tourists whom they had abducted in the Peruvian Amazon a day earlier to protest what they called government inaction after an oil spill, officials said.

Charlotte Wiltshire spoke to the Mirror from the boat in the Amazon rainforest where she, her partner Ken, her son Luke and over 100 others were taken hostage by a group of indigenous protesters

Dozens of people, including three British nationals, had been taken hostage this week by a group attempting to gain attention to a number of recent oil spills in the region

Environmental activists in Brazil and the governments of Norway and Germany on Friday welcomed a supreme court ruling that clears the path for Brazil's new government to relaunch a multibillion euro international programme aimed at protecting the Amazon rainforest.

Exclusive: Conservative ministers accused of ‘cosying up’ to defeated hardliner Bolsonaro

The detained tourists in the Amazon rainforest in Peru include citizens from the United States, Spain, France, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, and include women and children