February 2024

Mexico

Dip in winter monarch count spurs population debate

An unexpectedly dramatic drop in the number of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) roosting in the forests of Central Mexico over the winter has alarmed experts ......

Venezuela (Free Read)

Venezuela initiative aids people as well as the forest

When Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro established the enormous Caura National Park in 2017, he was ostensibly safeguarding the 75,000-square-kilometer (29,000-sq.-mile) expanse of forest and moist ......

Colombia

Petro banking on payments to curb deforestation

Colombia is dramatically increasing government payments to families that work to protect local forest, a move experts have welcomed but warn will likely face security ......

Argentina

Argentine beef sector gauges environmental impact

Under international pressure to cut their industry’s greenhouse-gas emissions, Argentina’s beef industry is beginning to conduct studies aimed at quantifying its environmental impact. Two cattle-ranches recently ......

Brazil

Floating solar farms beginning to gain favor in Brazil

Brazil in the next few months will begin bringing online its biggest floating solar farm, a means of renewable-power production that is farthest along in ......

Around the Region

Salmon farms in or near three Chilean parks to be relocated

A pair of salmon farming companies in Chile have agreed to relocate nine concessions they have operated inside or adjacent to national parks in the ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

LiDAR bringing ancient land practices into focus

For decades, agricultural development and rainforest conservation in Latin America have seemed unalterably at odds, with ranching and farming typically involving wholesale land clearing, biodiversity ......

Q&A

Turning to children to boost the odds of Atlantic Forest conservation

Rebecca Smith directs Para La Tierra, a nonprofit organization in Paraguay that was established in 2010 to help conserve what remains of that country’s Atlantic ......