Soybean and livestock producers were responsible for the dumping of herbicides by plane over the Amazon forest and other biomes in an area the size of 30,000 soccer fields.

The week of November 1, a preliminary bill was presented to the Peruvian Comisión de Justicia del Congreso de la República.

About 200 families in El Espave, on the banks of the Bahia de Chame, a large bay, work in the production of mangrove charcoal, which they sell to pizzerias and restaurants.

The Mexican biologist and professor of Ecology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Aurora Gaxiola, has dedicated her area of study to Chilean forests, particularly the metabolism of trees.

President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree presented by industries that exploit salt marshes on the coasts of Brazil to further capitalize off Permanent Environmental Protection Areas (APPs).

Panama is a “carbon negative” country.

Guillermo Lasso, Ecuador’s president, proposed to over 120 world leaders that debt be exchanged for environmental conservation and announced the formation of a new marine reserve in the Galápagos.

Major floods from Colombia’s west coast are threatening the biodiversity of amphibians in the zone, La Mojana.

While on an official trip to Colombia, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the United States will launch a regional pact to reduce deforestation throughout the Amazon.

On Wednesday, October 13th, the Brazilian senate approved a bill to amend the Forest Code, which authorizes municipalities to define the area of protected land around riverbanks.