Latin America community activism news

• Argentina’s co-operativas escolares: A case study in co-op education, thenews.coop (May 12, 2026) — In 1946, national legislation formally established the teaching of co-operativism and the creation of school co-operatives
• Across South America, canopy bridges evolve as a lifeline for tree-dwelling wildlife, news.mongabay.com (Mar 04, 2026)

• Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first, theguardian.com (Dec 29, 2025)
• Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds, theguardian.com (Nov 09, 2025) — Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger
• The Guardian view on worsening extreme weather: the injustice of the climate crisis grows ever clearer, Editorial, theguardian.com (Nov 07, 2025)
• Seven Indigenous paths to protect the Amazon, news.mongabay.com (Sep 29, 2025)
• Deforestation Threatens Public Health. Securing Indigenous Land Rights Can Help, Researchers Find, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 11, 2025)
• Indigenous-led solar canoe initiative expanding across the Amazon, Aimee Gabay, news.mongabay.com (Sep 01, 2025)
• Calls to declare the Amazon a global fossil fuel exclusion zone, elespectador.com (Aug 18, 2025) — More than 50 Indigenous and civil society organizations demand that the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization declare this biome fossil fuel-free
• Top Latin American court upholds right to “healthy climate”, urges fossil fuel control, climatechangenews.com (Jul 04, 2025)
• ‘A future on our terms’: how community energy is lighting up Latin America, theguardian.com (May 08, 2025)
• Distributed energy is driving Latin America’s energy transition, dialogue.earth (Apr 22, 2025)
• In Guadeloupe, ‘Creole gardens’ give climate lessons in a spirit of solidarity, globalvoices.org (Apr 15, 2025)
• Landmark Ruling on Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Strikes at Oil Industry, insideclimatenews.org (Mar 13, 2025)
• The dream to restore a special forest taking root in the high Andes, news.mongabay.com (Feb 14, 2025)
• Latin America is moving fast to protect democracy from excesses of big tech, theconversation.com (Feb 11, 2025)
• Study shows large social disparities in neighborhood flooding within Latin American cities, nature.com (Feb 10, 2025) — Policymakers must prioritize flood adaptation and recovery efforts in neighborhoods with lower socioeconomic status

August

• 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)

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

• Rio’s dolphins back from the brink of extinction thanks to education and research, news.mongabay.com (Apr 30, 2024)
• Top Human Rights Court Urged to Tackle Corporate Climate Crimes, desmog.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)

December

• Renewable energy drive for indigenous groups in Colombia, BBC News (Dec 27, 2023)
• Uruguay’s green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it’s done, theguardian.com (Dec 27, 2023)
• Collaboration involving local fishing communities helps save manatees stranded in Colombia, news.mongabay.com (Dec 18, 2023)
• Opportunities from a community-led strategy to save Brazil’s dry forests from desertification, news.mongabay.com (Dec 11, 2023)
• How Jocotoco Foundation, an Ecuadorian non-profit protects 10% of the world’s bird species, 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)

• Latin America: The Rapid Spread of Desertification, Global Voices (Nov 04, 2009)