The vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MINAGRI) asked the director of the National Forest and Wildlife Service (SERFOR), Luis Alberto Gonzales-Zúñiga, to resign in the midst of the implementation of policies against illegal logging.

The Guairá Province of Paraguay has rolled out a new ecotourism plan in order to promote conservation of the nation’s forests.

The National Disaster Risk Management Unit (Ungrd) announced that over 800 conflagrations have been recorded so far in 2020, affecting more than 29,000 hectares.

Ibama, the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, has already made headlines a couple of times this year, especially in relation to issues with the Bolsonaro administration.

The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical forest, famous for its biodiversity.

While the coronavirus continues to spread across the world, dengue is seriously affecting the population in Peru, especially those living in poverty. Dengue is “an infectious disease caused by a virus transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti.”

Researchers from the University of Costa Rica (UCR) have confirmed that the insects known as “bedbugs” have returned to Costa Rica, and by extension, to the Central American region, for the first time in 30 years.

Many efforts have been set in motion for the conservation of the spectacled bear in South America.

The burning and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is a horrific issue that is only getting worse.

At just 40 km north of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, the American-owned Rosario Mining Company operated to extract deposits of gold and silver between the years of 1880 and 1954. Rosario Mining Company extracted 6.5 million tons of mineral valued at 100 million dollars during those 74 years of operation.