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

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Jun 2021

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

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 22 Apr 2021

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

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 22 Dec 2020

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

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 24 Aug 2020

As 2019 Amazon fires die down, Brazilian deforestation roars ahead

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Oct 2019

Brazil to open indigenous reserves to mining without indigenous consent

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 14 Mar 2019

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

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Feb 2019

Bolsonaro hands over indigenous land demarcation to agriculture ministry

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 2 Jan 2019

Amazon soy boom poses urgent existential threat to landless movement

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 20 Dec 2018

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

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 6 Dec 2018

Bolsonaro pledges government shakeup, deregulation, Amazon development

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 19 Nov 2018

China increasingly involved in Brazil’s ambitious Amazon rail network

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Nov 2018

Violence spikes during Brazil elections, rural minorities fear worse

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 24 Oct 2018

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

Sue Branford and Maurício 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 and Maurício Torres 15 Oct 2018

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

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Aug 2018

Brazil’s political storm driving Amazon deforestation higher

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 9 Jul 2018

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

Rosamaria Loures, Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 31 May 2018

Brazilian Amazon oil palm deforestation under control, for now

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 17 May 2018

Attack of the turtles: ruralists assault environmental laws, Amazon

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 May 2018

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

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 12 Apr 2018

NGOs denounce Tapajós basin intimidation, violence, Brazil inaction

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 4 Apr 2018

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

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 7 Mar 2018

Brazilian Supreme Court ruling protects Quilombola land rights for now

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 13 Feb 2018

Brazil 2018: Amazon under attack, resistance grows, courts to act, elections

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 9 Jan 2018

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Dec 2017

Ferrogrão grain railway threatens Amazon indigenous groups, forest

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 4 Dec 2017

Indigenous forests could be a key to averting climate catastrophe

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 6 Nov 2017

Temer offers amnesty, erasing up to $2.1 billion in environmental crime fines

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 31 Oct 2017

Temer guts Brazil’s slavery law, to the applause of elite ruralists

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Oct 2017

Record Amazon fires stun scientists; sign of sick, degraded forests

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 11 Oct 2017

Amazon community on Tapajós River invaded by wildcat miners

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres, with additional reporting by Ailen Vega 2 Oct 2017

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