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Brazil ‘Adopt-a-Park’ program may negatively impact traditional peoples

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 8 Jun 2021

As climate summit unfolds, no Biden-Bolsonaro Amazon deal forthcoming

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 22 Apr 2021

Intimidation of Brazil’s enviro scientists, academics, officials on upswing

Mauricio Torres, Sue Branford 8 Apr 2021

Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 22 Dec 2020

Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award

Thais Borges, Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2020

Key Amazon grain route blocked by Indigenous protest over funding, Grainrail

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 24 Aug 2020

Brazil opens 38,000 square miles of indigenous lands to outsiders

Mauricio Torres, Sue Branford 8 May 2020

Amazon’s Mura indigenous group demands input over giant mining project

Mauricio Torres, Sue Branford, Thais Borges 27 Dec 2019

Mega-mining project slated for Brazilian Amazon sparks controversy

Thais Borges, Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 26 Dec 2019

As 2019 Amazon fires die down, Brazilian deforestation roars ahead

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 23 Oct 2019

The Sateré-Mawé move to reclaim Amazon ancestral lands from invaders

Thais Borges, Mauricio Torres, Sue Branford 4 Jun 2019

Brazil to open indigenous reserves to mining without indigenous consent

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 14 Mar 2019

Brazil sees growing wave of anti-indigenous threats, reserve invasions

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 19 Feb 2019

Bolsonaro hands over indigenous land demarcation to agriculture ministry

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 2 Jan 2019

Amazon soy boom poses urgent existential threat to landless movement

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 20 Dec 2018

Bolsonaro shapes administration: Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

Sue Branford, Thais Borges, Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2018

Amazon indigenous groups and truckers ally to oppose Brazil’s Grainrail

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 6 Dec 2018

Bolsonaro pledges government shakeup, deregulation, Amazon development

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 19 Nov 2018

China increasingly involved in Brazil’s ambitious Amazon rail network

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 8 Nov 2018

Violence spikes during Brazil elections, rural minorities fear worse

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 24 Oct 2018

Grainrail: ‘2nd revolution in Brazilian agribusiness’ and Amazon threat

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 22 Oct 2018

Aloisio Sampaio, a trade unionist known as Alenquer, the leader of the KM Mil landless peasant occupation. He was murdered on 11 October. Image by Thais Borges.

Landless movement leader assassinated in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 15 Oct 2018

Community-run trading posts help Amazon forest people reverse rural exodus

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 23 Aug 2018

Death foretold? A courageous Amazon peasant couple resists illegal loggers

Thais Borges, Mauricio Torres 10 Aug 2018

Brazil’s political storm driving Amazon deforestation higher

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 9 Jul 2018

Raid fails to stop gold mining, death threats on Amazon’s Tropas River

Rosamaria Loures, Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 31 May 2018

Brazilian Amazon oil palm deforestation under control, for now

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 17 May 2018

Attack of the turtles: ruralists assault environmental laws, Amazon

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 15 May 2018

A forgotten people: traditional Amazon hamlet fights for its territory

Natalia Guerrero, Mauricio Torres 9 May 2018

Brazil’s high court curbs executive power to dismember protected areas

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 12 Apr 2018

NGOs denounce Tapajós basin intimidation, violence, Brazil inaction

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 4 Apr 2018

Analysis: the Brazilian Supreme Court’s New Forest Code ruling

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 7 Mar 2018

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