Peru's government has mobilized thousands of National Police agents to the buffer zone of Tambopata National Reserve in the Madre de Dios region to evict illegal gold-miners operating in the area.
Bolivia and Brazil agreed to coordinate their military forces to fight criminal gangs that operate on their shared jungle border, long porous for drug and arms traffickers.
Thousands of indigenous protesters clashed with police outside the congress building in Brasilia, during a demonstration over territorial and land rights in the Brazilian Amazon.
Ecuador's government has deployed drones and helicopters to the Amazon village of El Tink, where indigenous residents are blocking roads in a dispute over a mining project.
The Inter-Oceanic Highway, long a focus of protest in Peru's Amazon, is at issue in the corruption scandal implicating ex-president Alejandro Toledo.
A New Year's Day prison riot in Brazil's Amazon riverport city of Manaus left up to 60 dead—with many of the bodies decapitated, mutilated and burned.
Indigenous communities in the Bolivian Amazon are joining with ecologists to oppose a "mega-dam" complex the government has announced for the Río Beni.
Illegal gold mining in Peru has razed almost 62,500 hectares of rainforest—an area over ten times the size of Manhattan—over the past four years.
Indigenous leaders in Pando region of the Bolivian Amazon issued an urgent call for the protection of "uncontacted" peoples threatened by oil operations.
Luiz Alberto Araújo, a municipal environmental official in the Amazon town of Altamira who had aggressively campaigned against illegal logging, was shot dead by unknown gunmen.
Indigenous protesters lifted their blockade of the Río Marañon as Lima acceded to their demand that a high-level delegation be sent to their remote community of Saramurillo.
Peru's government announced that an official delegation will meet with indigenous protesters who have been blockading a main tributary of the Amazon River.
