Keep updated with, and share the latest news from, about and of interest to community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across Latin America.
Could a £2-a-day basic income be the key to protecting rainforests?, theguardian.com (Aug 22, 2024) - Argentina judge halts deforestation of Chaco forest in rare move, reuters.com (Aug 19, 2024)
- Sustaining birds, bees & communities, Rio’s grassroots agroforestry, news.mongabay.com (Aug 13, 2024)
- Women finding empowerment working with nature’s bounty in Brazil’s Pantanal, news.mongabay.com (Aug 08, 2024)
- Fighting for the Native Forest of the Gran Chaco in Argentina, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 06, 2024)
2024[edit | edit source]
July
- Amazon deforestation cut by 83% in places protected by Indigenous communities – new research, theconversation.com (Jul 15, 2024)
- Public luxury for the everyday citizens of Mexico City—with “100 Utopias” being built by new Mayor Clara Brugada, Daily Alternative (Jul 06, 2024) — "brilliant example of collective amenity and a public infrastructure of care", David Madden
May
- ‘The tranquility frees you’: Bogotá, the city that shuts out cars every week, theguardian.com (May 30, 2024)
- Right to manage a Brazilian state park celebrated by fishing community, news.mongabay.com (May 28, 2024)
- Rio de Janeiro bay reforestation shows mangroves’ power to mitigate climate disasters, apnews.com (May 24, 2024)
- International development can tackle the climate and migration crises together, theconversation.com (May 21, 2024)
- Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests?, theguardian.com (May 01, 2024) — More than half of the country’s forestry is in community and Indigenous hands – and from CO2 absorption to reducing poverty the results are impressive
April
- Top Human Rights Court Urged to Tackle Corporate Climate Crimes, desmog.com (Apr 30, 2024)
- Rio’s dolphins back from the brink of extinction thanks to education and research, news.mongabay.com (Apr 30, 2024)
- Plastic-choked rivers in Ecuador are being cleared with conveyor belts, BBC Future (Apr 22, 2024)
- 'I want to erase my own footprint': The women looking after an island paradise, BBC News (Apr 21, 2024)
- Women fight back as Milei’s government tries to starve their soup kitchens, opendemocracy.net (Apr 03, 2024)
March
- International Court Issues First-Ever Decision Enforcing the Right to a Healthy Environment, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 29, 2024)
- The best solutions to make life possible in the Caatinga semiarid region are those born from popular wisdom. “Those that sprout like a seed you put in the ground.” Tião Alves, news.mongabay.com (Mar 25, 2024)
- Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, aljazeera.com/ (Mar 18, 2024)
- Lima’s neurodiverse picnic movement is liberating Peruvians from stigma and abuse, positive.news (Mar 13, 2024)
- This is how Latin America tries to turn its youth into young homeowners, globalvoices.org (Mar 01, 2024)
February
- Afro-Brazilian quilombo community wins historic land claim, setting new precedent, news.mongabay.com (Feb 29, 2024)
- Community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon across Brazil’s soy belt, news.mongabay.com (Feb 15, 2024)
- ‘We are in an era of megafires’: new tactics demanded as wildfires intensify across South America, theguardian.com (Feb 13, 2024)
- In Chile, huge wildfires have killed at least 131 people – but one village was almost untouched, theconversation.com (Feb 08, 2024)
- Hopes for end to land conflicts raised by new agrarian courts in Colombia, news.mongabay.com (Feb 07, 2024)
January 2024
- Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2024)
- Puerto Rico is using residents’ home batteries to back up its grid, grist.org (Jan 16, 2024)
2023[edit | edit source]
December
- Uruguay’s green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it’s done, theguardian.com (Dec 27, 2023)
- Renewable energy drive for indigenous groups in Colombia, BBC News (Dec 27, 2023)
- Collaboration involving local fishing communities helps save manatees stranded in Colombia, news.mongabay.com (Dec 18, 2023)
- How Jocotoco Foundation, an Ecuadorian non-profit protects 10% of the world’s bird species, news.mongabay.com (Dec 11, 2023)
- Opportunities from a community-led strategy to save Brazil’s dry forests from desertification, news.mongabay.com (Dec 11, 2023)
- Circles of hope: the Guatemalan women reviving Indigenous concepts of mental wellbeing, positive.news (Dec 08, 2023)
November
- How a small Caribbean island is trying to become hurricane-proof, theconversation.com (Nov 28, 2023)
- Partnering with communities and llama herders in the Andes to improve soil quality and plant productivity as more ice retreats, news.mongabay.com (Nov 27, 2023)
- A Peruvian farmer is trying to hold energy giant RWE responsible for climate change – the inside story of his groundbreaking court case, theconversation.com (Nov 27, 2023)
- ‘It is all about listening and sharing’: Indigenous solutions to the carbon divide, theguardian.com (Nov 22, 2023)
October
- The barren island that came back from the dead, positive.news (Oct 18, 2023)
- The seed guardians of Peru trying to save the potato, BBC Future (Oct 03, 2023)
September
- Agroforestry chocolate helping save the world’s most endangered rainforest, by Liz Kimbrough, news.mongabay.com (Sep 12, 2023)
2009[edit | edit source]
- Latin America: The Rapid Spread of Desertification, Global Voices (Nov 04, 2009)
