Latin America in 2025: Conservation promises collide with crime and extraction

Mongabay
Dec 31, 2025, 11:00 am123 ptsTrending
MEXICO CITY — Throughout 2025, Latin America remained a battleground between efforts to conserve some of the world’s most valuable ecosystems and mounting pressure from organized crime and legal extractive industries pushing into new frontiers. Home to about 40% of the world’s known species, Latin America…

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