HOUSTON (AP) - Never before had so much lumber been denied entry at a U.S. port on evidence that it was harvested illegally. Homeland Security investigators in Houston, acting on intelligence from ...

Rare images of members of the world’s largest uncontacted tribe show them emerging from the Peruvian Amazon – only miles from where companies are controversially logging pristine rainforest. The ...

Loggers have entered the Trombetas River Biological Reserve in Oriximiná, in Brazil’s Pará state, to develop a forest management project that has divided the local Quilombola community. The reserve is ...

Police stormed a dozen sawmills in Brazil's Amazon rainforest in a raid on Tuesday (June 2). They arrested about 30 people accused of involvement in an illegal logging ring. They say a criminal group ...

New figures coming from the Brazilian government suggest illegal logging has taken more trees from the Amazon rainforest than previously expected. Satellite data from Brazil’s National Institute for ...

New research published in Environmental Research Letters from the Tropical managed Forests Observatory (TmFO) concludes that despite the implementation of improved logging practices, forests in the ...

ARARIBOIA TERRITORY, Brazil (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Following traditional rituals, indigenous chief Olimpio Santos Guajajara paints his face with red dye from urucum seeds as he prepares to go ...

A study published in Environmental Research Letters indicates Amazonian forests probably can't provide enough timber to meet current longterm demands. This is true even if better logging practices are ...