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Brazil scraps 11 new Amazon protected areas covering 2,316 square miles

Brazilian legislators break law, attack Amazon, trade freely with world: report

Temer’s deforestation policies put Paris goals at risk, scientists warn

3,000 indigenous people gather in Brasilia to protest ruralist agenda

Brazil high court Forest Code ruling largely bad for environment, Amazon: NGOs

Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy

EU-LatAm trade deal good for agribusiness; bad for Amazon, climate – analysis

Temer uses controversial deforestation data in speech to UN

Indigenous victory: Brazil’s Temer decrees 1.2 million Amazon reserve

Indigenous groups win key land rights victory in Brazil’s Supreme Court

Brazil’s Indians on the march in last ditch effort to stop land theft

Brazilian firm wants to build new dams in Amazon’s Aripuanã basin

Brazil on verge of legitimizing Amazon land theft on a grand scale, warn NGOs

A stubborn dreamer who fought to save Amazon’s Waimiri-Atroari passes

Brazil moves to cut Amazon conservation units by 1.2 million hectares

Environmental official murdered in Brazilian Amazon

Planned Tapajós industrial waterway a potential environmental disaster

Environmental licence for São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam denied

Fish kills at Amazon’s Belo Monte dam point up builder’s failures

Arara Indians in Brazilian Amazon finally given right to their land

Brazil’s Congress moves ahead to end nation’s environmental safeguards

Iriri River families fight to keep their Amazonian homelands

BNDES Speaks Out: giant Brazilian bank offers rare in-depth interview

Report from the Amazon #5: Iriri River folk may be forced from their homes to protect the environment they love

BNDES: a bank loans billions to tame South America’s wild waters

Report from the Amazon #4: Indigenous and non-indigenous cultures, once hostile to each other, now mingle

BNDES funded Belo Monte dam — a mega-project with mega-problems

Report from the Amazon #3: Iriri River offers up examples of sustainable and unsustainable business

BNDES has long history of loans to gigantic construction companies

Report from the Amazon #2: Newly created conservation unit could push long-time residents from their lands

Giant development bank’s social and environmental safeguards called into question by critics

Report from the Amazon #1: Altamira, a city transformed by the Belo Monte dam

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