After international outcry following forest fires in the Amazon, representatives from six countries in the Amazon region signed a pact promising to protect the Amazon.

The Ecuadorian Amazon is threatened by mining and oil drilling operations that continue to expand and impact large areas of the rainforest.

Paraguay’s current forest fire outbreak is worrisome because unlike before, it has begun burning important conservation areas affecting many indigenous communities.

In an effort to improve Uruguay’s biodiversity, Plantatón Uruguay planned an initiative to plant more than 500 native trees in the department of Artigas.

The Chilean drought seems to have only worsened in recent months.

Heat waves in the northern hemisphere, ever-growing fires in the Amazon forest, and droughts in Chile are all part of an environmental situation that gets more and more complex.

The effects of the Amazon forest fires are being felt throughout Latin America.

Pablo José Negret, a Colombian at the University of Queensland in Australia has collaborated with organizations like the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Nature Conservancy to publish an article in Biological Conservation that seeks to decode the complexities that deforestation in the Colombian Amazon presents.

The Panamanian National Assembly created a Commission of Investigation to attempt to fix the deforestation problem in the province of Darién.

The mayor of Veracruz, Mexico, Fernando Yunes Márquez, has cancelled public cleaning services for government agencies and hospitals.