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These results are being celebrated as a major win. New data shows encouraging drop in damaging practice in the Amazon — but alarming challenges remain in the region first appeared on The Cool Down.

According to a new report, organized criminal gangs have expanded their presence in over a third of municipalities in Brazil's rainforest region.

illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon was out of control. According to the research collective MapBiomas, illegal miners — garimpeiros, as they are known in Brazil — almost doubled the ...