A new form of organized crime has recently been emerging in the Amazon: illegal mining. Miners fell trees, use high-grade explosives to oblast soils and dredge riverbeds.

The future feels more threatening and ominous than ever. The sense of doom and gloom is deepening, not least in the West.

There is growing evidence that climate change can increase the risks of conflict and violence.

As the world’s largest terrestrial carbon sink, the Amazon is a key front in the fight against climate change

In some areas of the world, including Central America, rising sea levels and declining agricultural productivity due to climate change are expected to trigger major migratory flows, especially within countries.

This idea has gained momentum as Peru, Bolivia and Brazil join forces to build a corridor that would stretch over 3,800 km from the port of Santos, in Brazil, across Bolivia to the port of Ilo, in Peru.

Environmental defenders in Brazil are at risk — last year, 57 were assassinated and the numbers are increasing.