Environment & Sustainability

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Restoring the Páramo: How Ecuador healed its degraded high-Andean ecosystem

Restoring The Páramo: How Ecuador Healed Its Degraded High Andean Ecosystem

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Ecuador’s Antisana páramo, southeast of Quito, offers a striking example of ecological restoration, turning back the clock on centuries of degradation caused by…

Dying for Arariboia

Dying For Arariboia

In Brazil’s Arariboia Indigenous Territory, the Guajajara people and uncontacted Awá have been subjected to violence and land grabbing. This Mongabay series reveals a pattern of targeted killings amid a surge of illegal cattle ranching and logging in and around…