June 2024

Mexico (Free Read)

Stingless-bee initiatives spur tradition, conservation

Ancient Mayans considered bees a gift from the gods. Community beekeepers across the Yucatán Peninsula kept honey-producing stingless bees in log hives to provide antibiotic ......

Region (Free Read)

Tracking Magellanic penguins’ remarkable migration

In an unprecedented collaboration, specialists from public and private organizations have equipped 20 Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) with satellite transmitters and are following them electronically ......

Ecuador

Funding infusion on way for Galápagos conservation

On May 9, 2023, Ecuador announced the world’s biggest debt-for-nature swap. Under the agreement, international creditors would reduce the country’s debt obligations by more than ......

Brazil

In Brazil, researchers see AI as way to curb roadkill

A group of Brazilian computer scientists, alarmed by the amount of roadkill in their highly biodiverse country, are devising a system that uses artificial intelligence ......

Peru

Peru’s new marine reserve raises hopes, questions

Peru has created a new reserve to protect one of the world’s highest-biodiversity tropical marine areas, but some scientists worry it could be negatively affected ......

Around the Region

Environmental workers launch nationwide strike

Following nine months of failed negotiations with authorities, all Brazilian government environmental employees in 24 of the country’s 27 states agreed in June to strike ......

Centerpiece

Sheinbaum’s green agenda is politically fraught

Just hours after winning Mexico’s presidential election on June 2, Claudia Sheinbaum promised to continue the work of her mentor, outgoing President Andrés Manuel López ......

Q&A

In Ecuador, U.S.-born fruit grower pushes for more private reserves

Mimi Foyle, a U.S.-born fruit grower and conservationist, has lived and worked in the Andean Chocó región for five decades. She spent the first 11 ......