United Nations report concludes indigenous peoples of Latin America are, by far, the most effective guardians of rainforest in the region

Read the original report at: www.fao.org/americas/publicaciones-audio-video/forest-gov-by-indigenous/en/

Read a news article discussing this report at www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/25/indigenous-peoples-by-far-the-best-guardians-of-forests-un-report

The importance of Indigenous Peoples’ lands for the conservation of terrestrial mammals

Read more at: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.13620

Council on Foreign Relations: How Brazil’s Burning Amazon Threatens the Climate

Read more at: https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/how-brazils-burning-amazon-threatens-climate

Nature and Culture International: Unparalleled in scale, complexity, and diversity, the Amazon stabilizes key processes that are vital to life on Earth.

Read more at: https://natureandculture.org/ecosystems/amazon-rainforest/

National Geographic: Rainforest Encyclopedia

Read more at: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/rain-forest/

Monga Bay: Amazon Destruction

Read more at: https://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html

Amazon fires: What's the latest in Brazil? Dark clouds of smoke smothered cities in Brazil as parts of the Amazon burned at a rate not seen in years, and the world responded with outrage.

Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49971563

Scientists and environmental groups 'alarmed' by huge rise in Amazon wildfires

Read more at: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/scientists-environmental-groups-alarmed-huge-rise-amazon-wildfires-n1235595

The Worlds Rainforests: Tropical and Temperate

Read more at: www.rainforestmaker.org/files/the_worlds_rainforests_tropical_and_temperate.pdf

Wide-scale negative impacts of damming rivers in the Amazon basin

Read more at: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22333