Deforestation in the Amazon, in favor of grazing lands and agriculture, has been a threat to humans and wildlife in the region over the past decade.

Studies show that in the last ten years, close to a million acres of Amazonian rainforest have been converted to agricultural land.

Before the International Bird Fair in Cali, Colombia on the February 16, zoologist Carlos Mario Wagner tells us the story behind the event.

After a letter by experts and a concerted meeting with overseers of the Thomas der Hammen Reserve, the Ministry of Environment stopped the endeavor to allow companies to perform deforestation that is under the evaluation and oversight of environmentalists.

The new Accusatory Penal System in Panama allows individuals convicted of poaching endangered wildlife to commute their sentences to a “day fine” instead of serving time in jail.

Ten communities on the reservation Reserva Comunal de Amarakaeri in the Madre de Dios region are suffering from the effects of indiscriminate gold mining.

Nearly a third of the lumber that is traded in the world is illegal. Much of that wood is being supplied from Latin America to China.

The closure the “Lixão da Estrutural” in Brazil, Latin America’s largest landfill, will leave close to two thousand collectors without work.

Over the past two years, nine environmentalists have been assassinated in Mexico, causing concern among the environmentally minded.

There is concern in Central America over the significant number of dead fish found in the Lempa River, which runs between Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.