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					<title>New analysis breaks down 2025 Amazon deforestation, with good news and bad news</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/new-analysis-breaks-down-2025-amazon-deforestation-with-good-news-and-bad-news/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Jun 2026 15:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Beef, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Fires, Forest Destruction, Forests, Heatwave, Industrial Agriculture, Land Use Change, Logging, Meat, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Secondary Forests, Soy, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Each year, researchers at the University of Maryland’s GLAD Lab in the U.S. develop one of the most important data sets on global forest loss. The data is derived from NASA and European Space Agency satellite imagery and, in the Amazon Rainforest, often helps environmental groups and government officials make decisions about conservation. The figures [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Each year, researchers at the University of Maryland’s GLAD Lab in the U.S. develop one of the most important data sets on global forest loss. The data is derived from NASA and European Space Agency satellite imagery and, in the Amazon Rainforest, often helps environmental groups and government officials make decisions about conservation. The figures for 2025 were published at the end of April, following months of processing and quality checks. But a comprehensive analysis, highlighting year-on-year trends and hotspots, was only recently released by Mapping of the Andes Amazon Project (MAAP), an Amazon Conservation initiative to track forest loss in the Amazon basin. While the data suggests that several metrics for measuring forest loss are down from previous years, they’re still concerningly high overall, researchers said. Agriculture, cattle ranching and mining continue to destroy hundreds of thousands of hectares of primary forest, often in protected areas and Indigenous territory. “I have a hard time saying it’s good news if deforestation is lower than previous years, but was still a million [hectares],” Matt Finer, MAAP director and senior research specialist, told Mongabay. He said it’s far from the zero-deforestation rate needed in the region. A: Soy frontiers of southeast Brazil; B: Soy frontiers of southern Bolivia; C: Trans-Amazonian Highway; D: BR-364; E: Agricultural areas in central Peru; F: Arc of deforestation in northwest Colombia; G: Gold mining areas in southern and central Peru: H: Gold mining areas in northern Ecuador; I: Gold mining areas in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname; J: Indigenous&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/new-analysis-breaks-down-2025-amazon-deforestation-with-good-news-and-bad-news/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-321708</doi>				</item>
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					<title>EUDR is starting to steer company actions, despite slow progress: Report</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/eudr-is-starting-to-steer-company-actions-despite-slow-progress-report/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Apr 2026 20:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Constance Malleret]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[European Union and Latin America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beef, Cattle, Commodity agriculture, Conservation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Deforestation, Forest Loss, Illegal Logging, Law, Law Enforcement, leather, Palm Oil, Soy, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Timber, Tropical Deforestation, and Zero Deforestation Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some companies have made headway toward removing deforestation from their supply chains in the last year, in preparation for the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), according to a new report by the NGO Global Canopy. This shows that the upcoming regulation is driving some progress despite an unfavorable global climate for environmental commitments. The Forest [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some companies have made headway toward removing deforestation from their supply chains in the last year, in preparation for the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), according to a new report by the NGO Global Canopy. This shows that the upcoming regulation is driving some progress despite an unfavorable global climate for environmental commitments. The Forest 500 Report 2026 examined the corporate commitments on deforestation, land conversion and human rights of the 500 companies with most influence over nine commodities linked to deforestation and covered by the EUDR: beef, cocoa, coffee, leather, palm, pulp and paper, rubber, soy and timber. It found that more than a quarter of companies reported new forms of implementation action in 2025, and 14% specifically mentioned the EUDR in documents about deforestation commitments. Forest 500 is based on public documents, and more companies could be making decisions based on the EUDR in private, the report notes. The EUDR is due to take effect Dec. 30 this year after several delays. “The EUDR is the main focus of this report. The key takeaway is that it’s working, it’s appearing in lots of company reporting, with 68 companies in our assessment citing it in regard to deforestation commitments, especially with traceability,” said Chloe Rollscane, a research associate at Global Canopy. “Even though [the EUDR] is not in place yet, it’s obvious that companies are getting ready for it.” These companies include producers and processors in source countries, as well as traders and retailers in the EU, Rollscane told&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/eudr-is-starting-to-steer-company-actions-despite-slow-progress-report/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-317553</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Silvopasture gains momentum in the Amazon, but can it shrink beef’s footprint?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/silvopasture-gains-momentum-in-the-amazon-but-can-it-shrink-beefs-footprint/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Jan 2026 12:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Charlie Espinosa]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agroecology, Agroforestry, Beef, Biodiversity, Carbon Emissions, Cattle, Conservation, Emission Reduction, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Pasture, Ranching, Threats To Rainforests, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the rolling hills of Iñapari, a remote town in the Peruvian Amazon on the tri-border with Bolivia and Brazil, cattle ranchers are ditching grass monocultures, which have been shown to harm biodiversity, in favor of forested pastures. For Antonio Cardozo, a local rancher who has planted hundreds of native trees, the switch has improved [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the rolling hills of Iñapari, a remote town in the Peruvian Amazon on the tri-border with Bolivia and Brazil, cattle ranchers are ditching grass monocultures, which have been shown to harm biodiversity, in favor of forested pastures. For Antonio Cardozo, a local rancher who has planted hundreds of native trees, the switch has improved his cattle’s diet and health, while also providing him with additional sources of food and income. “Learning has a cost, but in a few years you start to see a difference,” says Cardozo, who has been combining trees with rotational grazing, a practice that keeps the soil intact and allows grass to regrow. In less than a year, this practice allowed him to more than double the number of cows he grazes per hectare Livestock farming is responsible for roughly 80% of the deforestation in the Amazon Basin and 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions globally. Yet agricultural solutions receive just 7% of global climate funding and were absent from the recent COP30 climate summit agreement. According to some researchers, planting trees in pastures, an agroforestry technique known as silvopasture, represents one of the most effective yet neglected opportunities to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Under ideal conditions, silvopasture sequesters carbon in trees and soils while providing better forage and shade to heat-stressed cows, leading to healthier animals that emit less methane and occupy less land. It can also help small farmers adapt to climate-related disasters — responsible for $2.9 trillion in losses over the last&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/silvopasture-gains-momentum-in-the-amazon-but-can-it-shrink-beefs-footprint/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-312670</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In Brazil, a new label gives more visibility to deforestation-free beef</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/in-brazil-a-new-label-gives-more-visibility-to-deforestation-free-beef/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Dec 2025 14:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Constance Malleret]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, European Union, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beef, Cattle, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, EUDR, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, International Trade, Monitoring, Pasture, Rainforests, Ranching, Supply Chain, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amid growing pressure for beef supply chains to be deforestation-free, a new certification system in Brazil will allow meatpackers, importers and retailers to guarantee that the meat cuts they sell are not associated with deforestation. Down the line, this could also help companies become compliant with the European Union’s regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR). The [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amid growing pressure for beef supply chains to be deforestation-free, a new certification system in Brazil will allow meatpackers, importers and retailers to guarantee that the meat cuts they sell are not associated with deforestation. Down the line, this could also help companies become compliant with the European Union’s regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR). The voluntary Beef on Track (BoT) label, launched by the Institute of Forest and Agricultural Management and Certification (Imaflora) in October and due to come into effect in 2026, is the first certification of its kind to guarantee deforestation-free beef. It will do so by building on existing monitoring, reporting and verification protocols adopted by the meat industry, rather than by designing new systems. “We’re not reinventing the wheel; we’re giving visibility to processes that already exist,” said Marina Guyot, Imaflora’s executive manager for climate, land use and public policy. Imaflora was involved in creating two initiatives that encourage best practices in the beef industry through monitoring, reporting and verification in recent years: the Beef on Track program (Boi na Linha in Portuguese) for beef produced in the Amazon, set up in 2019, and the Cerrado Protocol, launched in 2024. Companies that are already 95% compliant with these protocols are automatically eligible for BoT’s lowest certification level. Imaflora plans to develop similar frameworks for other Brazilian biomes in the future. The BoT certification will also rely on criteria from the Working Group of Indirect Suppliers (GTFI in Portuguese), a cross-sector body working to uproot deforestation from&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/in-brazil-a-new-label-gives-more-visibility-to-deforestation-free-beef/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-311607</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Deforestation and disease spread as Nicaragua ignores illegal cattle ranching</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/deforestation-and-disease-spread-as-nicaragua-ignores-illegal-cattle-ranching/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Oct 2025 07:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, Latin America, and Nicaragua]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beef, Cattle, Conservation, Deforestation, Diseases, Environment, Environmental Law, Forest Destruction, Forests, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, International Trade, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Meat, Politics, Protected Areas, Public Health, Rainforests, Ranching, Threats To Rainforests, Trade, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Illegal cattle ranching has torn through Nicaragua’s rainforests in recent years, supplying a growing international market for meat despite calls for better oversight of the industry. Now, the country is feeling the consequences, as disease spreads through the unchecked movement of livestock. Cases of New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), or NWS, a fly that feeds [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Illegal cattle ranching has torn through Nicaragua’s rainforests in recent years, supplying a growing international market for meat despite calls for better oversight of the industry. Now, the country is feeling the consequences, as disease spreads through the unchecked movement of livestock. Cases of New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), or NWS, a fly that feeds on warm-blooded animals, have exploded across the country. Experts have traced the outbreak to Nicaragua’s massive cattle ranching industry, which transports herds from grazeland to slaughterhouses without always following protocol. “Nicaraguan beef sold in the United States, Mexico and other global markets is fueling the destruction of the largest remaining tracts of rainforest in the country,” said a new report from environmental group Re:wild. “[It’s] facing one of the most aggressive outbreaks of [NWS] in its recent history.” Beef is one of Nicaragua’s top exports, and has continued to grow since President Daniel Ortega returned to power in 2007. Between January 2024 and June 2025, the country exported more than 60 million kilograms (132 million pounds) of beef to the U.S., valued at more than $390 million, according to U.S. maritime import data obtained by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). Cattle ranching helped exacerbate the spread of NWS, a parasite that first appeared in Panama in 2023 before reaching other parts of Central America and Mexico. Reported cases in Nicaragua rose from 11,930 at the start of 2025 to 19,700 in early July, according to the country’s Institute for Agricultural Protection and Health. Indio Maíz&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/deforestation-and-disease-spread-as-nicaragua-ignores-illegal-cattle-ranching/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Protein for a crowded planet: An interview with the Good Food Institute&#8217;s Nigel Sizer</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/protein-for-a-crowded-planet-an-interview-with-the-good-food-institutes-nigel-sizer/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Oct 2025 18:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Alternative proteins, Animal Welfare, Climate Change, Consumption, Environment, Food, food security, Green, Interviews, Livestock, and Meat]]>
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							<![CDATA[For more than three decades Nigel Sizer has orbited the front lines of environmental policy. His résumé spans forest conservation in Amazonia, the launch of Global Forest Watch at the World Resources Institute, and campaigns on human rights, climate change, and even pandemic preparedness. The arc of that career has led him to an unglamorous [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For more than three decades Nigel Sizer has orbited the front lines of environmental policy. His résumé spans forest conservation in Amazonia, the launch of Global Forest Watch at the World Resources Institute, and campaigns on human rights, climate change, and even pandemic preparedness. The arc of that career has led him to an unglamorous but decisive arena: what the world eats. “While our food system is a major driver of many crises, it also has huge potential to be part of the solution,” he says. The way meat is produced touches national security, biodiversity, public health, and the climate all at once. Sizer has just taken the helm at the Good Food Institute (GFI), a nonprofit dedicated to speeding the shift from conventional animal protein to plant-based, fermentation-enabled, and cultivated meat. He sees the role as “a chance to work at the root-cause level of the exact challenges I’ve spent my life tackling.” If alternative proteins become mainstream, he argues, they can relieve pressure on forests, protect wildlife, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and improve resilience to global health shocks. His past posts have prepared him for a job built on coalition building. Whether designing satellite-driven tools to monitor forests or mobilizing resources for restoration, Sizer has specialized in convening disparate actors around common goals. GFI’s work, he notes, will require the same skills: international collaboration, new partnerships, and a diversity of approaches across regions to transform how the world produces protein. “Scaling impact and unlocking critical resources,” he says,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/protein-for-a-crowded-planet-an-interview-with-the-good-food-institutes-nigel-sizer/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-306757</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Urban appetite for lemur meat piles pressure on iconic primates</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/urban-appetite-for-lemur-meat-piles-pressure-on-iconic-primates/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Oct 2025 18:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mino Rakotovao]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Madagascar]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bushmeat, Conservation, Crime, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Food, food security, Governance, Illegal Trade, Law Enforcement, Lemurs, Mammals, Meat, Primates, Research, Wildlife, Wildlife consumption, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[ANTANANARIVO — Ninety-five percent of lemur species are threatened by habitat loss, hunting and climate change. The direct threat is often understood to result from the actions of poor rural communities, but a forthcoming study has found that thousands of threatened lemurs are being hunted and killed every year to feed a lucrative urban market [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[ANTANANARIVO — Ninety-five percent of lemur species are threatened by habitat loss, hunting and climate change. The direct threat is often understood to result from the actions of poor rural communities, but a forthcoming study has found that thousands of threatened lemurs are being hunted and killed every year to feed a lucrative urban market for their meat in cities across Madagascar. “And 95% of that is through a hidden, direct-to-consumer trade, not restaurants,” study author Cortni Borgerson told Mongabay. “A single specialist trade-hunter can sell over 200 lemurs a year to their city clients.” Borgerson, an anthropologist at Montclair State University in the United States, has uncovered a highly organized luxury trade carried out by specialist hunters armed with shotguns. Lemur meat is by far the most expensive meat in Madagascar’s cities, a market fueled by wealthy urban consumers seeking both a connection to the wild and a self-care practice believed to preserve youth and health: “It’s seen as a natural, wild food that can counteract the health anxieties of an increasingly modern, urban diet and lifestyle, while also providing a luxury sense of rarity and quality,” Borgerson said. A black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata), an endangered species of ruffed lemur. Traders hunting lemurs for the urban luxury market are after large-bodied species like brown and ruffed lemurs. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. Damaging luxuries Rural subsistence hunting and the urban trade of lemur meat are largely separate but parallel systems, Borgerson said, though both exert pressure on lemur&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/urban-appetite-for-lemur-meat-piles-pressure-on-iconic-primates/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Marfrig&#8217;s bonds funded beef from illegally deforested areas in Brazil</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/marfrigs-bonds-funded-beef-from-illegally-deforested-areas-in-brazil/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Sep 2025 13:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Bruna BronoskiO Joio e o Trigo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Food systems]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Beef, Cattle, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Pasture, Rainforests, Ranching, Supply Chain, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Tied to clearing in Amazon and Cerrado, shipments from 'world's largest hamburger producer’ reach Europe and Asia.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Leia em português. Brazilian meatpacking giant Marfrig spent $1 billion from bonds it issued to buy cattle from a ranch linked to its board chair — with some of that cattle originating from illegally deforested areas of the Amazon and Cerrado, an investigation has found. Marfrig Global Foods SA, which bills itself as the world’s largest hamburger producer, has raised 11 billion reais ($2 billion) since 2019 from issuing a type of corporate bond known in Brazil as an agribusiness receivables certificate (CRA). Half of that amount — 5.5 billion reais, or $1 billion — was used exclusively to purchase cattle from feedlots run by MFG Agropecuária, whose managing partner is Marfrig&#8217;s board chairman, Marcos Antonio Molina dos Santos. Bondholders include individual investors, buying through brokerage apps or indirectly via financial operators. Part of the money went toward buying cattle originating from illegally deforested areas of the Amazon Rainforest and Cerrado savanna, according to an investigation by Joio e o Trigo (republished by Mongabay), in partnership with the Center for Climate Crime Analysis (CCCA), a nonprofit organization that supports global climate action. MFG, indicated in CRA documents as the rural producer receiving the proceeds of the bond issuance, purchases cattle from other suppliers, known as indirect suppliers. The last of these bonds matures in 2032. According to a 2024 public document Marfrig shared with investors, 100% of cattle purchased by the six MFG feedlots are sold to Marfrig slaughterhouses. MFG has been a wholly owned Marfrig subsidiary since 2014. The&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/marfrigs-bonds-funded-beef-from-illegally-deforested-areas-in-brazil/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Will we still eat beef in 50 years?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/will-we-still-eat-beef-in-50-years/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Aug 2025 13:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Alternative proteins, Biodiversity, Birds, Cattle, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Green, Meat, NGOs, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[When drought became a perennial visitor to the Beatty Canyon Ranch in Colorado in the late 1990s, Steve Wooten remembers telling his family, “We got to do something different.” Between 1997 and 2003, the Wootens, who have been raising cattle in this arid landscape since 1929, had to sell off cows — a last resort [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When drought became a perennial visitor to the Beatty Canyon Ranch in Colorado in the late 1990s, Steve Wooten remembers telling his family, “We got to do something different.” Between 1997 and 2003, the Wootens, who have been raising cattle in this arid landscape since 1929, had to sell off cows — a last resort for any rancher. Steve Wooten figures they lost half a million dollars. “I never want to do that again,” he tells Mongabay. “We felt like one of the things we have to do is create the resilience in the ranch so that we&#8217;re not wiped out by drought.&#8221; Around that time, the family “got more serious” about dealing with drought, and it’s helped the ranch keep going. They made plans to allow the recovery of grasses so that they spring back to life when the rains come, Wooten says. And they&#8217;ve gone all in on a strategy they’d previously experimented with, one that aims to mimic the role that wild grazers played on the grasslands of North America for millions of years. Proponents say a focus on holistic grazing helps the land recover, provides habitat for other species, and pulls carbon from the atmosphere. To Wooten, the proof is in the resurgent grasses that feed the cattle year after year. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t venture to say that we&#8217;re always in balance, because we are an extractor of that natural resource,” he adds. “But if your cattle are in balance, and you&#8217;re matching their forage needs …&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/will-we-still-eat-beef-in-50-years/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Insignificant risk’ EUDR proposal threatens fight against deforestation, critics say</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/insignificant-risk-eudr-proposal-threatens-fight-against-deforestation-critics-say/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Jul 2025 17:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Europe and European Union]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Beef, Cacao, Cattle, Coffee, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, EUDR, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forests, International Trade, Law, Logging, Palm Oil, Politics, Rainforests, Rubber, Soy, Threats To Rainforests, Timber, timber trade, Trade, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A last-minute proposal to revise the European Union’s sweeping antideforestation law has conservationists worried about yet another delay to the law’s implementation and weaker oversight of supply chains. The EU deforestation-free products regulation, or EUDR, is scheduled to go into effect at the end of this year, imposing new restrictions on imports linked to forest [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A last-minute proposal to revise the European Union’s sweeping antideforestation law has conservationists worried about yet another delay to the law’s implementation and weaker oversight of supply chains. The EU deforestation-free products regulation, or EUDR, is scheduled to go into effect at the end of this year, imposing new restrictions on imports linked to forest loss. But some officials want to simplify a section of the law to make trade easier — a hazardous delay tactic, some critics say. “Further attempts to delay the application of the regulation or to undermine its well thought through architecture will damage the credibility of the EU and frustrate the efforts of companies and third countries that have invested in reaching compliance,” said Together4Forests, a campaign of more than 220 environmental groups. The EUDR requires producers — including those in European countries — to prove cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soy and wood weren’t sourced from land that was deforested after Dec. 31, 2020. Technically, the law took effect in 2023 but allowed countries an 18-month transition period to give producers time to meet the new trade regulations. Last year, the transition period was extended by another 12 months, citing producers’ lack of preparedness. It’s now due to go into force on Dec. 30 this year. Corn and soy fields in Brasilia, Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres) The rigor of the regulations each country faces is based on a benchmarking system that categorizes them as either high, standard or low risk. This has been&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/insignificant-risk-eudr-proposal-threatens-fight-against-deforestation-critics-say/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-303145</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Meat giant profits from carbon market without halting deforestation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/meat-giant-profits-from-carbon-market-without-halting-deforestation/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Jul 2025 15:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Bruna Bronoskifrom O Joio e O Trigo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil and Saudi Arabia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Credits, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Cattle, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Greenwashing, Meat, Oil, Oil Drilling, Pasture, Rainforests, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Since the first scientific critiques of fossil fuels, oil companies have gone from being the &#8220;wealth of nations&#8221; to &#8220;destroyers of the planet.&#8221; In financial market terms, they have become environmental liabilities. It cannot be said, however, that they have also become economic liabilities. The global carbon credit market is heating up — quite like [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Since the first scientific critiques of fossil fuels, oil companies have gone from being the &#8220;wealth of nations&#8221; to &#8220;destroyers of the planet.&#8221; In financial market terms, they have become environmental liabilities. It cannot be said, however, that they have also become economic liabilities. The global carbon credit market is heating up — quite like the planet — and oil companies are among the main players interested in leveraging this business. Among the world&#8217;s largest oil producers, countries on the Arabian Peninsula, such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have partnered with Brazil’s Minerva Foods. It is the country’s second-largest meatpacker by net revenue, trailing only JBS — a giant firm whose supply chain has been linked to deforestation. In 2021, Minerva’s subsidiary MyCarbon 3 Ltda was created for a single purpose: to generate and sell carbon credits. However, the company’s projects are far from transparent. Currently under validation by Verra, the world’s leading carbon credits certifier, these initiatives aim to restore degraded pasturelands in the Cerrado. This biodiverse savanna ecosystem, which comprises around 20% of Brazil’s territory, is home to part of Minerva’s cattle supply chain and has already lost half of its native vegetation. The main cause of deforestation in the Cerrado is the activity that feeds Minerva&#8217;s meatpacking plants, farming. Partnerships between oil companies and carbon credit companies are emerging as a global trend. In 2022, Shell invested 200 million reais (roughly $40 million) in Carbonext, a developer of REDD+ projects (carbon projects in forests).&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/meat-giant-profits-from-carbon-market-without-halting-deforestation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Report links meat giant JBS to massive destruction of jaguar habitat</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/report-links-meat-giant-jbs-to-massive-destruction-of-jaguar-habitat/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 May 2025 12:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Constance Malleret]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Beef, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Cattle, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Endangered Species, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Illegal Logging, Jaguars, Pasture, Rainforests, Ranching, Supply Chain, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agricultural expansion in two Brazilian states has cleared a U.K -sized area of jaguar habitat, nearly a fifth of which occurred in the last decade alone, a new report shows. About 27 million hectares (67 million acres) of wild jaguar habitat have been lost as of 2023 in the Amazonian states of Pará and Mato [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agricultural expansion in two Brazilian states has cleared a U.K -sized area of jaguar habitat, nearly a fifth of which occurred in the last decade alone, a new report shows. About 27 million hectares (67 million acres) of wild jaguar habitat have been lost as of 2023 in the Amazonian states of Pará and Mato Grosso, with 5 million hectares (12 million acres) deforested just in the period from 2014-2023, according to the report by environmental and human rights advocacy group Global Witness. It attributes part of this loss to ranches indirectly supplying cattle to meatpacking giant JBS, with nearly all of the deforestation since 2013 being illegal.  The report comes amid pushback against environmental enforcement efforts at the state level in Brazil, and as the country prepares to host the U.N.’s annual climate summit, COP30, in November. Jaguars (Panthera onca) need intact forests to live and hunt in, and are a keystone species, which means that any change to their territories affects the entire ecosystem they inhabit. The Amazon Rainforest remains the last major stronghold for the species listed as near-threatened on the IUCN Red List. Cattle grazing in deforested land in Pará, one of the states with jaguar territory analyzed by Global Witness. Image courtesy of Global Witness. “We wanted to show not just that deforestation is a huge climate threat, because it destroys forests on which we rely for all the ecosystem services, but also the impact it has on iconic species and all types of biodiversity,”&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/report-links-meat-giant-jbs-to-massive-destruction-of-jaguar-habitat/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-299502</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New forest loss data beef up Amazon deforestation case against Casino Group</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/new-forest-loss-data-beef-up-amazon-deforestation-case-against-casino-group/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 May 2025 08:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Carla Ruas]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beef, Cattle, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Pasture, Rainforests, Ranching, Supply Chain, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[A recent report by the nonprofit Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV) found that the operations of French retailer Casino Group in Brazil could be linked to more than half a million hectares of deforestation between 2018 and 2023. According to ICV, 526,459 hectares (approximately 1.3 million acres) of native vegetation — an area about 50 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A recent report by the nonprofit Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV) found that the operations of French retailer Casino Group in Brazil could be linked to more than half a million hectares of deforestation between 2018 and 2023. According to ICV, 526,459 hectares (approximately 1.3 million acres) of native vegetation — an area about 50 times the size of Paris — was cleared largely in the Amazon Rainforest to raise cattle for the company’s beef supply chain. The findings are the latest in a series of deforestation allegations against the French retailer in Latin America, where it operated more than 3,000 grocery stores until recently. In 2021, a coalition of 11 Colombian and Brazilian environmental and Indigenous organizations sued Casino Group in France for environmental damage and human rights violations. The case remains ongoing in the Paris courts. Raquel Carvalho, author of the ICV report, told Mongabay that it took a year to uncover the new data. “There’s great difficulty in measuring the deforestation caused by beef sold in grocery stores,” she said. “The main challenge is the lack of traceability between cattle suppliers and these stores. We have animal transport documents that track cattle from ranches to slaughterhouses, but the paper trail ends there.” In the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado savanna, clearing forests for pastureland remains widespread. Image courtesy of the Casino Case coalition. Researchers worked around this challenge by calculating the total beef traded by two Casino-owned retail chains in Brazil and estimating the amount of new pasture&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/new-forest-loss-data-beef-up-amazon-deforestation-case-against-casino-group/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Corporate giants fall short on forest protection commitments, report</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/corporate-giants-fall-short-on-forest-protection-commitments-report/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Apr 2025 15:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Beef, Cacao, Deforestation, EUDR, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forests, Green, Indigenous Rights, leather, Palm Oil, Rubber, Soy, and Timber]]>
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							<![CDATA[Many everyday items could be connected to deforestation, from your morning coffee to chocolate snacks, leather shoes and wooden furniture. Only 3% of major companies are taking action to stop forest destruction, according to a new report from NGO Global Canopy. The “Forest 500 Report 2025” examined 500 companies with the most influence over products [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Many everyday items could be connected to deforestation, from your morning coffee to chocolate snacks, leather shoes and wooden furniture. Only 3% of major companies are taking action to stop forest destruction, according to a new report from NGO Global Canopy. The “Forest 500 Report 2025” examined 500 companies with the most influence over products most linked to deforestation: beef, leather, palm oil, soy, timber, paper, and newly added cocoa, coffee and rubber. This year&#8217;s report expanded beyond rainforests to cover all forest types. &#8220;It&#8217;s disappointing to see this lack of action from those with the most power to stop deforestation,&#8221; Emma Thomson from the Forest 500 and tracking lead at Global Canopy told Mongabay. &#8220;It is unacceptable that so many companies are still doing nothing.&#8221; The report identified 24 &#8220;persistent laggards,&#8221; companies that have never made any deforestation commitments despite being evaluated for more than 10 years. These include major U.S. businesses like Ashley Furniture Industries, beef trader Parker-Migliorini International, and Land O&#8217;Lakes (a “powerbroker” for palm oil, soy and paper packaging). Other significant offenders include the world&#8217;s largest pork producer, WH Group (owner of Smithfield Foods), China State Construction Engineering Corp., and Bright Food Group. Cattle at one of the 70,000 suppliers used by JBS, one of Brazil&#8217;s largest beef producers. Photo courtesy of JBS Some companies are backtracking and retreating from previously announced targets. The world&#8217;s largest meatpacker, Brazil-based JBS, which in 2021 became the first in its industry to commit to net-zero emissions by 2040 and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/corporate-giants-fall-short-on-forest-protection-commitments-report/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-298338</doi>				</item>
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					<title>An oil-rich West African island offers decades of insight into the wild meat trade</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/an-oil-rich-west-african-island-offers-decades-of-insight-into-the-wild-meat-trade/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Apr 2025 15:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Spoorthy Raman]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Equatorial Guinea, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Bushmeat, Conservation, Environment, Meat, Rainforests, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[The volcanic island of Bioko, about 160 kilometers, or 100 miles, northwest of mainland Equatorial Guinea, is carpeted in lush green tropical rainforest. This forest is home to many endemic animals, including Bioko drill monkeys (Mandrillus leucophaeus poensis), listed as endangered, and black colobus monkeys (Colobus satanas satanas), critically endangered. Interspersed in the landscape are [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The volcanic island of Bioko, about 160 kilometers, or 100 miles, northwest of mainland Equatorial Guinea, is carpeted in lush green tropical rainforest. This forest is home to many endemic animals, including Bioko drill monkeys (Mandrillus leucophaeus poensis), listed as endangered, and black colobus monkeys (Colobus satanas satanas), critically endangered. Interspersed in the landscape are patches of croplands and cacao and coffee plantations that cater to the expanding human presence on the island, most of it concentrated in the north, where Equatorial Guinea’s bustling capital, Malabo, lies. Unlike many parts of Central and West Africa, deforestation poses less of a threat to the rainforest of Bioko. But the thriving wild meat trade, which includes the endemic primates, has conservationists on edge. “The bushmeat [consumption] on Bioko is clearly unsustainable because, as an island, there are several species that are classified as endemic,” says Maximiliano Fero, research director at the National University of Equatorial Guinea in Malabo. “Since the oil boom on Bioko Island that started in 1994, there are people moving to this place, both from mainland Equatorial Guinea and foreign countries, and have developed a taste for bushmeat.” That taste has created niche markets that serve the urban rich in Malabo, some who believe wild meat tastes better and is more nutritious than store-bought meat; many see it as a delicacy and vanity. Emin’s pouched rat (Cricetomys emini) is the most commonly traded species in Bioko’s wild meat markets. Image by David Montgomery. A recent study published in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/an-oil-rich-west-african-island-offers-decades-of-insight-into-the-wild-meat-trade/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In Bolivia’s flooded savannas, ranching aims to boost grasslands conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/in-bolivias-flooded-savannas-ranching-aims-to-boost-grasslands-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Nov 2024 20:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Brian Kluepfel]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Food systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=290935</guid>

					
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							<![CDATA[Bolivia, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Beef, Biodiversity, Cattle, Conservation, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forest Destruction, Industrial Agriculture, Pasture, Protected Areas, Ranching, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Towering the grass islands of the Llanos de Moxos, the motacú palm (Attalea phalerata) has been around for thousands of years. It’s common across this flooded ecosystem, a mix of savanna and wetlands that spreads over more than 125,000 hectares (about 308,900 acres) in northern Bolivia. Although they are vital nesting sites and source of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Towering the grass islands of the Llanos de Moxos, the motacú palm (Attalea phalerata) has been around for thousands of years. It’s common across this flooded ecosystem, a mix of savanna and wetlands that spreads over more than 125,000 hectares (about 308,900 acres) in northern Bolivia. Although they are vital nesting sites and source of food for the critically endangered blue-throated macaw (Ara glaucogularis), motacú palms also attract unwanted visitors. Cattle seeking refuge from the water have long consumed these islands’ understories and exhausted their soils, undermining tree development and endangering macaws. These islands are not the only ones vulnerable. Beni’s grasslands and forests are threatened by intensive grazing and encroaching rice and soy crops. But in the last 15 years or so, efforts to protect ecosystems and more recently, to involve the ranching community in conservation, have increased.   The Barba Azul Reserve – named after the Spanish name for the blue-throated macaw – spreads over 11,000 hectares (27,180 acres) in the Yacuma province of Beni. It contains a variety of ecosystems, from gallery forests and savannas to wetlands and secondary forests. The reserve was created in 2008 by Asociación Civil Armonia, a bird conservation NGO, which acquired the land to protect the rare macaws, whose populations had dropped dramatically since the 1970s. The blue-throated macaw (Ara glaucogularis) depends on the motacú palm, an emblematic tree in the Beni savannas.  Image by Lennart Verheuvel, courtesy of Asociación Armonia. In the last few years, the NGO has focused on shifting&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/in-bolivias-flooded-savannas-ranching-aims-to-boost-grasslands-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-290935</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Brazil beef industry still struggling with deforestation from indirect suppliers, survey finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/brazil-beef-industry-still-struggling-with-deforestation-from-indirect-suppliers-survey-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Nov 2024 19:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Beef, Cattle, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Meat, Politics, Rainforests, Ranching, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Surveys of the Brazilian cattle ranching industry have found that there is still a serious lack of transparency throughout the beef supply chain, including from slaughterhouses and retailers. This means there is little control over where beef comes from, suggesting that much of it could be contributing to illegal deforestation in the Amazon, according to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Surveys of the Brazilian cattle ranching industry have found that there is still a serious lack of transparency throughout the beef supply chain, including from slaughterhouses and retailers. This means there is little control over where beef comes from, suggesting that much of it could be contributing to illegal deforestation in the Amazon, according to Radar Verde, a cattle monitoring initiative made up of several climate groups. Brazil is the world’s largest exporter of beef, and the Amazon is home to approximately 43% of the country’s cattle herds, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Over a 12-month span, starting last July, the Amazon lost 6,288 square kilometers (2,428 square miles) of forest, according to the country’s national space research institute, INPE. “Companies in the beef chain that have not yet adopted measures to control their direct and indirect suppliers are encouraged to be more responsible, with the risk of being deprived by consumers who increasingly adopt more conscious attitudes regarding the environment,” Radar Verde said in its 2023 report. Cattle become difficult to track when they move between different suppliers without proper documentation. In many cases, the cattle graze on illegally deforested land and then enter legal herds, receiving ear tags and permits as if they’ve been grazing legally. Then they move onto slaughterhouses and supermarkets. Direct suppliers of cattle, or the suppliers who own the cattle last, are easier to track, while indirect suppliers — who own the cattle earlier in their lives — often disappear from&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/brazil-beef-industry-still-struggling-with-deforestation-from-indirect-suppliers-survey-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-290734</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Is the delay of Europe&#8217;s deforestation regulation a cause for regret, or an opportunity? (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/is-the-delay-of-europes-deforestation-regulation-a-cause-for-regret-or-an-opportunity-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2024 17:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Alain Karsenty]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Europe and European Union]]>
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							<![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation, Beef, Cacao, Commentary, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Governance, International Trade, Rubber, Soy, Trade, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A European Commission project to counter deforestation and forest degradation associated with &#8220;the making available on the Union market as well as the export&#8221; of certain agricultural products was unveiled in November 2021. The &#8220;Deforestation and Forest Degradation Regulation&#8221; (EUDR) was adopted in June 2023, and was due to come into force in early 2025 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A European Commission project to counter deforestation and forest degradation associated with &#8220;the making available on the Union market as well as the export&#8221; of certain agricultural products was unveiled in November 2021. The &#8220;Deforestation and Forest Degradation Regulation&#8221; (EUDR) was adopted in June 2023, and was due to come into force in early 2025 for large companies. But in early October 2024, the EC proposed a one-year postponement &#8220;in order to assist global stakeholders, member states and third countries in their preparations.&#8221; A few months earlier, the Commission had postponed publication of the benchmarking analysis, which classifies countries into three risk categories (low, standard, high). The level of risk should determine the level of due diligence that importers must carry out when acquiring production that may have been associated with deforestation or degradation. Operators may be penalized for failing to carry out due diligence, even if it turns out that the imported product has not contributed to deforestation. The regulation stipulates that, before a product is offered for sale on the European market (or exported), each operator will have to guarantee that it is not associated with deforested land after December 31, 2020, by geolocating the parcels from which it originates using a traceability system. Farmers (and foresters) will have to upload traceability data, including GPS coordinates, which will be compared with satellite images. The indication of plot boundaries is compulsory from four hectares upwards. Cattle ranching is a key driver of deforestation in the Amazon. Image courtesy of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/is-the-delay-of-europes-deforestation-regulation-a-cause-for-regret-or-an-opportunity-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-289700</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Study shows most Amazon beef &#038; soy demand comes from Brazil — not exports</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/study-shows-most-amazon-beef-soy-demand-comes-from-brazil-not-exports/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Aug 2024 19:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fernanda Wenzel]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Beef, Climate Change, Conflict, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Governance, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Soy, and Threats To Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The article, published in Nature Sustainability, concluded that the domestic market answered for three times more deforestation than international sales.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Since the first roads opened the way to the cheap and unexplored lands of northern Brazil in the 1950s, the Amazon Rainforest has been playing an unglamorous role in the global economy. Despite its cultural and environmental richness, the rainforest became a commodity source of low-value-added products, which left behind a trail of deforestation and little economic development. The transformation of the Amazon into an agribusiness hub was pushed by the beef and, more recently, grain industries: The region&#8217;s contribution to the country&#8217;s total cattle herd rose from 9.5% in the mid-1970s to 44.5% in 2022, and from 0.02% to 41.5% for soybeans. Part of it is exported to China, Europe, and other regions, as it was long emphasized by the media and activists. With 13.2% of the rainforest lost, pressure to stop the clearances falls not only on those operating the chainsaws but also on the consumers of these products. Scientists have been warning that the rainforest could lose its capacity to store carbon if deforestation reaches a 25% “tipping point” — where the Amazon would start to dry up and look like a savanna and not as a forest anymore. To stop this trend, environmentalists have been pressuring companies and governments to tackle deforestation. &#8220;The whole discussion has always been on the supply side,&#8221; Eduardo Haddad, a professor from the Department of Economics of the University of São Paulo, told Mongabay. &#8220;But the question now is: Where does this demand come from?&#8221; To answer this question, he and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/study-shows-most-amazon-beef-soy-demand-comes-from-brazil-not-exports/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-286622</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Biden Administration mistakenly seeks delay of EU&#8217;s new deforestation regulation (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/biden-administration-mistakenly-seeks-delay-of-new-european-deforestation-regulation-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Aug 2024 19:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Etelle Higonnet]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Europe, European Union, Latin America, North America, South America, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Beef, Cacao, Coffee, Commentary, Commodity agriculture, Deforestation, Forests, Governance, Palm Oil, Regulations, Rubber, Soy, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A crucial new European law to save global forests is under attack, by the Biden Administration – precisely at the time Biden seeks to burnish his environmental credentials. The regulation at stake? It’s the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), a law that’s widely considered the best hope for the lungs of our planet. Yet the U.S. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A crucial new European law to save global forests is under attack, by the Biden Administration – precisely at the time Biden seeks to burnish his environmental credentials. The regulation at stake? It’s the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), a law that’s widely considered the best hope for the lungs of our planet. Yet the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimundo, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and Trade Representative Katherine Tai sent a letter to the European Commission demanding that the European Union delay the EUDR. Their letter parroted ill-informed arguments put forth by a small number of the U.S.’s least ethical producers, and ignored how thousands of companies and investors representing trillions of dollars are on the opposite side, actively supporting the EUDR. Cattle ranching is a leading cause of deforestation in Brazil, and much of the resulting beef is exported. Image © Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace. Worse yet, the letter in essence asked Europe to penalize the most law-abiding companies, many of which are already investing in due diligence and deploying all their resources to ensure timely compliance. Delaying the EUDR, as Vilsack asks, would hurt companies that started early and reward the laggards. The truth is that American producers are perfectly capable of producing the products regulated by the EUDR without deforestation, namely soy, cattle, timber, cocoa, rubber, and coffee. Indeed, the United States should be the foremost supporter of the EUDR, perhaps unlike other producer countries that are less able to control significant deforestation in the regulated commodities. Here’s why: new&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/biden-administration-mistakenly-seeks-delay-of-new-european-deforestation-regulation-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-286084</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indonesian palm oil, Brazilian beef top contributors to U.S. deforestation exposure</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/indonesian-palm-oil-brazilian-beef-top-contributors-to-u-s-deforestation-exposure/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 May 2024 15:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Beef, Biodiversity, Cacao, Cattle, Coffee, Conservation, Corn, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forest Destruction, Forests, Green, International Trade, Palm Oil, Pasture, Rainforests, Ranching, Rubber, Soy, Threats To Rainforests, and Timber]]>
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							<![CDATA[If you’re in the United States, your meal might come with a side of deforestation.  The US imported palm oil, cattle products, soybeans, cocoa, rubber, coffee and corn linked to an estimated 122,800 hectares (303,445 acres) of tropical deforestation between October 2021 and November 2023 — an area the size of the city of Los [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[If you’re in the United States, your meal might come with a side of deforestation.  The US imported palm oil, cattle products, soybeans, cocoa, rubber, coffee and corn linked to an estimated 122,800 hectares (303,445 acres) of tropical deforestation between October 2021 and November 2023 — an area the size of the city of Los Angeles, according to a new report provided by the NGO Trase for Global Witness. More than a third (33.8%) of the deforestation was linked to oil palm imports, primarily from Indonesia. Cattle products, sourced mainly from Brazil, Australia and Mexico, were the second-largest contributor, at 31.8%. Coffee placed third, at 24.2%, followed by cocoa (7.6%), soybeans (2%), corn (0.37%) and rubber (0.15%). “I think it&#8217;s quite striking how palm oil was potentially quite a big source of deforestation exposure for the U.S. as a commodity that has received lots of attention,” Mark Titley, senior research associate at Trase, told Mongabay. Several Latin American countries were identified as significant sources of deforestation. Brazil was the second-largest contributor to U.S. deforestation exposure, primarily through cattle products. Colombia was the source of nearly a fifth of the deforestation linked to U.S. coffee imports. Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Honduras also contributed, mainly by exporting cattle products, coffee and cocoa. Trase&#8217;s methodology combines satellite data on tree cover loss with trade records and commodity production data to estimate the amount of deforestation per ton of production in each country and year. &#8220;So if we&#8217;re looking at palm oil, we&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/indonesian-palm-oil-brazilian-beef-top-contributors-to-u-s-deforestation-exposure/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Goldman Prize honors Brazilian investigation linking JBS &#038; deforestation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/goldman-prize-honors-brazilian-investigation-linking-jbs-deforestation/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Apr 2024 07:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[André Schröder]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Cerrado, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Beef, Climate Change, Conflict, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Meat, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, and Threats To Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Marcel Gomes, the executive secretary at investigative journalism outlet Repórter Brasil, is one of this year’s prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize winners.]]>
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							<![CDATA[In December 2021, six major European supermarket chains decided to halt the sale of Brazilian beef giant JBS products indefinitely. The boycott was announced after a report by the nonprofit media outlet Repórter Brasil, in partnership with the global NGO Mighty Earth, which directly linked JBS goods sold in Europe to deforestation in Brazil’s most threatened ecosystems, including the Amazon Rainforest. The journalistic investigation revealed that the meatpacking company had bought cattle raised in illegally deforested areas by indirect suppliers in a scheme known as “cattle laundering.” On April 29, Marcel Gomes, the executive secretary at Repórter Brasil, won the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize for leading this investigative effort. “It’s a pleasure to receive the award for a journalistic effort and to see this field of knowledge valued,” Gomes told Mongabay by phone. “This investigative work required a lot of planning and dedication, years of defining strategies and implementation.” Other five Goldman awards were announced on Apr. 29: Alok Shukla from India, Andrea Vidaurre from the U.S., Murrawah Maroochy Johnson from Australia, Teresa Vicente from Spain, and Nonhle Mbuthuma and Sinegugu Zukulu from South Africa. Gomes’ award-winning work began in 2017, with the construction of its own platform to cross-reference large masses of data on the beef chain — environmental fines, embargoes, slave labor and inter-ranch cattle transport guides provided by public agencies under Brazil&#8217;s transparency law. Gomes said that Repórter Brasil&#8217;s tool helps connect Brazil&#8217;s ranching to social and environmental issues. &#8220;We built a platform full of information from&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/goldman-prize-honors-brazilian-investigation-linking-jbs-deforestation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Ten years since anti-deforestation pledge, corporate world still not doing enough</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/ten-years-since-anti-deforestation-pledge-corporate-world-still-not-doing-enough/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Mar 2024 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Beef, Cattle, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forests, Industrial Agriculture, International Trade, Land Rights, Palm Oil, Politics, Pulp And Paper, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Soy, Supply Chain, Threats To Rainforests, Timber, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[It was supposed to be a major milestone, back in 2014, when hundreds of governments and companies came together to sign the New York Declaration on Forests, aimed at eliminating natural forest loss worldwide. But many of the declaration’s goals have come and gone over the last decade, and companies continue to lag behind on [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It was supposed to be a major milestone, back in 2014, when hundreds of governments and companies came together to sign the New York Declaration on Forests, aimed at eliminating natural forest loss worldwide. But many of the declaration’s goals have come and gone over the last decade, and companies continue to lag behind on meeting future ones. One organization, Global Canopy, a U.K.-based not-for-profit, has been monitoring major players in the private sector since the declaration was signed. Its database, named Forest 500 because of the 350 companies and 150 financial institutions included on the list, keeps track of who’s made what promises and how close they are to fulfilling them. It focuses on commodities with the greatest impact on forests — beef, leather, soy, palm oil, timber, pulp and paper — and what policies have been put in place to eliminate deforestation from those supply chains. Global Canopy released its 10th annual Forest 500 report last month, a notable opportunity to reflect on what progress has or has not been made over the last decade. Numerous companies still haven’t developed a single deforestation policy for their supply chains in that time. Others have developed policies but failed to implement them in a meaningful way. And those with strong, long-term goals aren’t always doing enough to meet them. “To ensure a livable future, the world cannot endure another decade of limited progress,” the report said. “This is the critical decade for humanity.” Companies on the Forest 500 list include&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/ten-years-since-anti-deforestation-pledge-corporate-world-still-not-doing-enough/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Major meatpacker JBS misled the public about sustainability efforts, NY lawsuit claims</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/major-meatpacker-jbs-misled-the-public-about-sustainability-efforts-ny-lawsuit-claims/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Mar 2024 20:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, New York, North America, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Beef, Cattle, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Industrial Agriculture, International Trade, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new lawsuit in New York claims that one of the world’s largest beef producers has been misleading the public about its efforts to curb deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions. New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against JBS USA Food Company and JBS USA Food Company Holdings for misrepresenting plans to achieve [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new lawsuit in New York claims that one of the world’s largest beef producers has been misleading the public about its efforts to curb deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions. New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against JBS USA Food Company and JBS USA Food Company Holdings for misrepresenting plans to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. In reality, the company lacks concrete sustainability calculations and even plans to expand operations, the lawsuit claims. “JBS Group and JBS USA have used greenwashing and misleading statements to capitalize on consumers’ increasing desire to make environmentally friendly choices,” the attorney general’s office said in a statement. The lawsuit cites numerous instances in which the company’s claims to the public didn’t align with what was happening behind closed doors. Its website and advertisements have boasted claims about reaching net-zero carbon emissions while company executives were making plans to grow. During industry presentations, they allegedly said conveying an interest in the environment was a strategy for maintaining control of the food market. In April 2021, the company ran a full-page ad in the New York Times with claims about cutting emissions, and made similar promises to an audience at a Climate Week event last September, the lawsuit said. In other instances, it allegedly promised to cut emissions by 30% by 2030. Cattle in Los Lagos, Chile. Photo by Molly Condit via We Animals Media (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). JBS told Mongabay it disagrees with the attorney general’s office and takes its&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/major-meatpacker-jbs-misled-the-public-about-sustainability-efforts-ny-lawsuit-claims/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-279405</doi>				</item>
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					<title>French banks accused of money laundering linked to Amazon deforestation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/french-banks-accused-of-money-laundering-linked-to-amazon-deforestation/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Nov 2023 19:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Dimitri Selibas]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food systems]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Beef, Cattle, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forest Destruction, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Research, Supply Chain, and Threats To Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Nov. 8, an NGO coalition filed a complaint with the French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) against French banks BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, BPCE and AXA, calling for a criminal investigation for money laundering and concealment, based on the banks’ financing of leading Brazilian meat companies JBS and Marfrig. Deforestation is illegal in Brazil [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Nov. 8, an NGO coalition filed a complaint with the French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) against French banks BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, BPCE and AXA, calling for a criminal investigation for money laundering and concealment, based on the banks’ financing of leading Brazilian meat companies JBS and Marfrig. Deforestation is illegal in Brazil and France, and according to a recent European Union directive relating to money laundering, any benefit obtained from an environmental crime, such as money or commodities, may represent the proceeds of crime. Clearing forests for cattle ranching is the leading driver of deforestation in Brazil and South America, and the coalition argued that the meat companies had not taken sufficient steps to prevent cattle from illegally deforested areas coming into their supply chains. By providing financing and making a profit from it, the banks also potentially would be criminally liable. A rancher herds cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Image by Bernard DUPONT via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0). “You have an obligation to make sure that you are not enabling money laundering and you need to put in really strong mechanisms to make sure that you&#8217;re excluding actors that are profiting from illegal deforestation,” said Anahita Yousefi, founder and executive director of the NGO Harvest. “But clearly what we’re seeing is that the banks are not taking those obligations seriously.” Harvest coordinates the NGO coalition, which includes Transparency International, Sherpa from France, the Center for Climate Crime Analysis (CCCA) in the Netherlands and Repórter Brasil. Recognizing&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/french-banks-accused-of-money-laundering-linked-to-amazon-deforestation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Meatpacking giant and Amazon deforester JBS bid for NYSE listing challenged</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/meatpacking-giant-and-amazon-deforester-jbs-bid-for-nyse-listing-challenged/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Sep 2023 13:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shanna Hanbury]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Agribusiness and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Global, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Beef, Business, Cattle, Climate Change, Conflict, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Finance, Globalization, Governance, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Industrial Agriculture, Industry, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Meat, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, and Threats To Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A bid by global beef-processing giant JBS for a listing on the New York Stock Exchange, giving it access to an influx of global investments, may be under threat following complaints lodged by environmental groups with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC decision currently remains in the balance, with JBS aiming to join [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A bid by global beef-processing giant JBS for a listing on the New York Stock Exchange, giving it access to an influx of global investments, may be under threat following complaints lodged by environmental groups with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC decision currently remains in the balance, with JBS aiming to join the NYSE by the end of the year. Several nonprofit organizations, including Mighty Earth and the Rainforest Action Network, submitted letters to the SEC in August asking for the Brazilian meatpacking company’s initial public offering to be investigated and possibly rejected due to its track record of corruption and Amazon deforestation. JBS, which already lists its shares on São Paulo’s B3 exchange, recently announced it was planning to list on the NYSE by the end of 2023 to “strengthen the conditions for growth and competition with global competitors.” But conservationists say an influx of investment could lead to an explosive expansion of the largest animal protein producer on Earth, leading to more deforestation in biomes in Brazil critical to protecting the global environment, including the Amazon. “This is probably the single most important IPO for the climate in history,” Glenn Hurowitz, founder of environmental NGO Mighty Earth, said after lodging the submission with SEC. “There are profound implications for the planet if JBS, the world’s worst Amazon deforester, is given the go-ahead to seek billions of dollars from Wall Street to continue tearing down rainforest, polluting on a vast scale, and driving land grabbing.” In&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/meatpacking-giant-and-amazon-deforester-jbs-bid-for-nyse-listing-challenged/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Despite lawsuit, Casino Group still sells beef from Amazonian Indigenous territory</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/despite-lawsuit-casino-group-still-sells-beef-from-an-amazonian-indigenous-land/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Jul 2023 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Fábio Bispo / InfoAmazonia]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation and Industry and People]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Beef, Biodiversity, Cattle, Conservation, Crime, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Food, Food Industry, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Industry, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Law, Law Enforcement, Pasture, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Social Conflict, and Social Justice]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new investigation shows that farms located in the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon supplied two JBS meatpacking plants that sell beef to brands of the French supermarket giant.]]>
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							<![CDATA[RONDÔNIA, Brazil — “We were walking along the road and all of a sudden, some people started coming out of the bush and appearing in cars and motorcycles. They surrounded us and said we were on private property. I told them it was Indigenous land, and they knew it.” That is how Indigenous peoples’ rights advocate Ivaneide Bandeira described the moments of tension she faced together with some Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 14. “This is not going to be as easy as you think, make no mistake about it,” said one of the men who surrounded Neidinha, as the environmentalist and founder of the Kanindé Ethno-Environmental Association is known. She filmed the encounter. The confrontation took place in an area of Rondônia’s Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indigenous Land known as Burareiro — a Brazilian Amazon region where encroachers have cattle ranches that supply large meatpacking companies and supermarket chains. In March 2021, a lawsuit was filed in France against French group Casino Guichard-Perrachon, which controls supermarket chains Pão de Açúcar, Assaí and Extra Hiper, for selling meat from suppliers directly linked to illegal deforestation in the Amazon, including farms located in the Burareiro area. The case falls under the 2017 so-called Vigilance Law, according to which large corporations based in Brazil must ensure that “both their subsidiaries and their subcontracted companies” do not cause “severe violations of human rights and fundamental liberties or harms to people’s health and safety, and the environment.” While Casino claimed in the French court that it&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/despite-lawsuit-casino-group-still-sells-beef-from-an-amazonian-indigenous-land/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In Nepal, Chepang take up the challenge to revive their cultural keystone tree</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/in-nepal-chepang-take-up-the-challenge-to-revive-their-cultural-keystone-tree/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 May 2023 23:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Nepal, and South Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Bats, Bees, Biodiversity, Bushmeat, Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Culture, Environmental Heroes, Erosion, Flowers, Indigenous Peoples, Meat, Traditional Knowledge, and Trees]]>
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							<![CDATA[SILINGE, Nepal — On a sunny afternoon, 70-year-old Dhanikram Praja squats on top of a hillock overlooking the lush green rows of trees dotting his farm, distinct from his other trees, which have already shed their leaves. The chiuri (Diploknema butyracea or Indian butter tree) saplings he planted three decades ago on his farm in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SILINGE, Nepal — On a sunny afternoon, 70-year-old Dhanikram Praja squats on top of a hillock overlooking the lush green rows of trees dotting his farm, distinct from his other trees, which have already shed their leaves. The chiuri (Diploknema butyracea or Indian butter tree) saplings he planted three decades ago on his farm in Silinge, central Nepal, are now in their full glory. “For Chepangs like us, the chiuri plant is everything,” said Nita Praja, Dhanikram’s grandaughter-in-law. Like Dhanikram, Nita is a member of the Chepang tribe, which has been living in Nepal’s hills in Chitwan, Makwanpur, Dhading and Gorkha for centuries. “We often talk about Chepang chiuri and chamero [bats], and the way they work together.” According to folklore, each member of the trio is necessary for the survival of the other two. The Chepang people are needed to look after the chiuri trees; the trees give the Chepang tribe butter, timber and fuelwood that they can sell or use; the bats pollinate the chiuri flowers to produce fruit and are also a traditional delicacy for the people. Prajwol and Nita Praja from the Chepang community with their chirui trees. Image by Abhaya Raj Joshi/ Mongabay However, despite the role the trees play in their culture, growing chirui trees has fallen out of popularity and the community has seen a militarized conservation model restrict their access to protected areas, farmlands and resources. The community finds itself in dire need of additional livelihoods outside of protected areas and subsistence&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/in-nepal-chepang-take-up-the-challenge-to-revive-their-cultural-keystone-tree/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Report links financial giants to deforestation of Paraguay’s Gran Chaco</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/report-links-financial-giants-to-deforestation-of-paraguays-gran-chaco/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Apr 2023 18:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Aimee Gabay]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation and Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Latin America, Paraguay, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Banking, Beef, Conservation, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Culture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environmental Law, Finance, Food, Food Industry, Forests, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Law, Meat, Supply Chain, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some of the world’s largest banks and financial institutions are helping to finance beef companies linked to the destruction of the Paraguayan Gran Chaco, according to a report published by rights group Global Witness. It lists investment giants BlackRock and Vanguard; lenders BNP Paribas, HSBC, Santander, J.P. Morgan and Bank of America; and pension fund [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some of the world’s largest banks and financial institutions are helping to finance beef companies linked to the destruction of the Paraguayan Gran Chaco, according to a report published by rights group Global Witness. It lists investment giants BlackRock and Vanguard; lenders BNP Paribas, HSBC, Santander, J.P. Morgan and Bank of America; and pension fund APG as among the institutions that hold large investments in companies linked to illegal deforestation and land-grabbing. “Our new investigation shows that banks are continuing to service and hold equity in companies linked to deforestation and human rights abuses, even when they made public pledges not to,” says the report, titled “Cash, Cattle and the Gran Chaco: How financiers turned a blind eye to Paraguay’s deforestation crisis.” Even after it was made public in 2020 that deforestation had entered the beef companies’ supply chains, the financial institutions “continued to hold and even accelerate investments.” Deforestation in the Chaco for cattle ranching. Image by Earthsight. Paraguay’s Gran Chaco region is home to the second-largest forest in South America, covering around 60% of Paraguay, as well as areas of Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil. It has one of the highest rates of tropical deforestation in the world, with Paraguay losing a quarter of its net forest cover between 2000 and 2020, or an estimated 5.2 million hectares (12.8 million acres) — an area almost twice the size of Belgium. The primary driver of deforestation in the Gran Chaco is cattle ranching. This sustained loss, despite the Gran Chaco&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/report-links-financial-giants-to-deforestation-of-paraguays-gran-chaco/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>For Dutch farming crisis, agroforestry offers solutions: Q&#038;A with Lennart Fuchs &#038; Marc Buiter</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/for-dutch-farming-crisis-agroforestry-offers-solutions-qa-with-lennart-fuchs-mark-buiter/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Mar 2023 18:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Peter Speetjens]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global Commodities]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, and Netherlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Agrochemicals, Agroecology, Agroforestry, Beef, Biodiversity, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Community Development, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Controversial, Crops, Environmental Law, Farming, Fertilizers, Food, Food Industry, food security, Industrial Agriculture, Law, Law Enforcement, Meat, Mitigation, Mongabay Data Studio, Nature-based climate solutions, Nitrogen Cycle, Nitrous Oxide, Politics, Pollution, Protests, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last year, farmer protests erupted throughout the Netherlands, riding a wave of rural anger at government plans to drastically halve nitrogen emissions by downsizing and closing farms. This quickly swept the newly founded agrarian party, the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BoerBurgerBeweging, or BBB), to victory in last week’s provincial elections, making it the country’s biggest political party. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Last year, farmer protests erupted throughout the Netherlands, riding a wave of rural anger at government plans to drastically halve nitrogen emissions by downsizing and closing farms. This quickly swept the newly founded agrarian party, the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BoerBurgerBeweging, or BBB), to victory in last week’s provincial elections, making it the country’s biggest political party. In the face of the farmer and nitrogen crisis, Dutch agriculture and environmental experts are calling for a change to the food system in a way that both reduces nitrogen emissions while addressing the financial and livelihood concerns of farmers, many of whom are in debt. “As they say in Dutch, ‘You can’t be green if you are in the red,’” says Lennart Fuchs, an agriculture researcher at Wageningen University &amp; Research in the Netherlands. Among the solutions the experts propose are agroforestry systems that harmoniously integrate reduced livestock with profitable trees and crops such as hazelnut, walnut, cider apple and timber trees, Fuchs tells Mongabay in an interview. Also known as silvopasture, this is a climate change solution that reduces emissions and can bring large returns on investments by producing multiple streams of income. A computer-generated image of what a future farm could look like in the Netherlands if it used an agroforestry system. Image by Lennart Fuchs. The Netherlands has long been a global agricultural powerhouse, and farms there have often been managed by the same families for generations. Home to some 17.5 million people, the country is Europe’s largest meat exporter and the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/for-dutch-farming-crisis-agroforestry-offers-solutions-qa-with-lennart-fuchs-mark-buiter/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Climate change lawsuits take aim at French bank BNP Paribas</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/deforestation-lawsuits-take-aim-at-french-bank-bnp-paribas/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Mar 2023 16:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
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						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, France, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Beef, Cattle, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Energy, Environment, Environmental Law, Fires, Forest Destruction, Forests, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Indigenous Peoples, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Natural Gas, Oil, Politics, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Supply Chain, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[One of Europe’s biggest banks is facing two ambitious new lawsuits that claim it finances some of the worst contributors to environmental destruction and climate change. French bank BNP Paribas is being sued by a group of environmental and human rights advocacy groups that allege it provides financial services to oil and gas companies as [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[One of Europe’s biggest banks is facing two ambitious new lawsuits that claim it finances some of the worst contributors to environmental destruction and climate change. French bank BNP Paribas is being sued by a group of environmental and human rights advocacy groups that allege it provides financial services to oil and gas companies as well as meat producers that clear the Amazon to make space for cattle pastures — a direct violation of a French due diligence law. The lawsuits, filed in French court, are some of the first to go after big banks for their role in the climate crisis, potentially opening up a new legal avenue for activists trying to combat climate change. “The financial sector has an enormous collective responsibility to meet or not meet the Paris Agreement,” Justine Ripoll, campaign manager for Notre Affaire à Tous, said in a statement. “This climate litigation against a commercial bank is undoubtedly the first in a long series — all over the world.” BNP Paribas officials speaking at a climate financing event. (Photo courtesy of BNP Paribas) The first lawsuit, filed this month by Oxfam, Friends of the Earth and climate justice NGO Notre Affaire à Tous, accused BNP Paribas of giving loans to oil and gas companies like BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell, among others. The other lawsuit, filed a week later by Comissão Pastoral da Terra and Notre Affaire À Tous, said the bank funds companies like Marfrig, a meat producer that continues to purchase cattle&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/deforestation-lawsuits-take-aim-at-french-bank-bnp-paribas/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Three small steps for mankind, one giant leap for the climate</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/three-small-steps-for-mankind-one-giant-leap-for-the-climate/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Mar 2023 16:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Juliette Portala]]>
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						<![CDATA[Maria Angeles Salazar]]>
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							<![CDATA[Alternative proteins, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Emission Reduction, Environment, Fellows, Food Industry, Fossil Fuels, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[From rising sea levels to scorching heat waves, the planet has one foot in the climate grave. But a new report says three targeted policy interventions could lead to positive tipping points, helping pull us back from the brink. The report — produced by Systemiq, a company that advocates for “systems change” in the global [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[From rising sea levels to scorching heat waves, the planet has one foot in the climate grave. But a new report says three targeted policy interventions could lead to positive tipping points, helping pull us back from the brink. The report — produced by Systemiq, a company that advocates for “systems change” in the global economy, along with the University of Exeter in the U.K. and the Bezos Earth Fund — focuses on areas that could trigger “a cascade of decarbonization” in sectors representing 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions. It was released at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in January. These positive or “desirable tipping points” can help humankind “transition to net zero greenhouse gas emissions as fast as we can,” Tim Lenton, chair in climate change and Earth system science at the University of Exeter and a contributor to the report, told Mongabay. The report, titled “The Breakthrough Effect,” identifies three credible “super-leverage points” that have the potential to cut carbon emissions not just in one sector, but to snowball into a series of tipping points and support faster decarbonization returns across numerous industries. Such positive tipping points occur where “reinforcing feedback within a system is able to get strong enough to become self-propelling,” according to Lenton. The first recommendation is for a mandate on zero-emission vehicles; the second a mandate to employ green ammonia as fertilizer; and the third is public procurement of non-meat proteins. All three of these sectors are connected to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/three-small-steps-for-mankind-one-giant-leap-for-the-climate/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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