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Amazon Soy Moratorium: defeating deforestation or greenwash diversion?

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Mar 2017
Logs burn at sunset in Bolivia. Photo by Jim Wickens/Ecostorm

Brazilian savanna and Bolivian rainforest at risk from soy production, says report

Maximo Anderson 8 Mar 2017

What happens when the soy and palm oil boom ends?

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Feb 2017

Getting there: The rush to turn the Amazon into a soy transport corridor

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 Feb 2017

Soy invasion poses imminent threat to Amazon, say agricultural experts

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Feb 2017

Brazil alters indigenous land demarcation process, sparking conflict

Jenny Gonzales 2 Feb 2017

‘Last frontiers of wilderness’: Intact forest plummets globally

John Cannon 13 Jan 2017

The end of a People: Amazon dam destroys sacred Munduruku “Heaven”

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 5 Jan 2017

Battle for the Amazon: Tapajós Basin threatened by massive development

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 3 Jan 2017

The year in tropical rainforests: 2016

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Dec 2016

Temer government set to overthrow Brazil’s environmental agenda

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 21 Dec 2016

Companies need to do more to avoid deforestation, study finds

John Cannon 10 Dec 2016

Top scientists: Amazon’s Tapajós Dam Complex “a crisis in the making”

Claire Salisbury 28 Nov 2016

Amazon oil spill impacts indigenous villages on Teles Pires River

Zoe Sullivan 21 Nov 2016

New report: Brazil’s Cerrado could sidestep conversion for agriculture

John Cannon 13 Nov 2016

Are global commodities producers living up to their climate promises?

Mike Gaworecki 3 Nov 2016

Violence against indigenous people high, as land conflicts heat up

Carolina Torres 18 Oct 2016

Amazon radio network unites regional opposition to Tapajós basin dams

Zoe Sullivan 26 Sep 2016

The alarming number of fires in the Brazilian Amazon

Natália Girão Rodrigues de Mello 8 Sep 2016

Planned Tapajós industrial waterway a potential environmental disaster

Sue Branford 26 Aug 2016

Why is Brazil regressing in its fight against deforestation?

Paulo Barreto 12 Aug 2016
Etnias, a 620-foot long mural in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, representing indigenous people from five continents by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra. The mural was commissioned for the Olympics. Photo by Agência Brasil Fotografias.

Olympics to begin amid rising violence against Brazil’s indigenous people

Sandra Cuffe 4 Aug 2016

Dams threaten future of Amazonian biodiversity major new study warns

Claire Salisbury 6 Jun 2016

Here’s what’s driving deforestation in South America

Mike Gaworecki 31 May 2016

Proposed Amazon dam attracts illegal loggers, threatens local farmers

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 19 May 2016

Tapajós dam puts newly discovered species, indigenous people at risk

Tatiana Farah – Repórter Brasil 17 May 2016
Riparian forest and soy. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Brazilian soy industry extends moratorium on deforestation indefinitely

Mongabay.com 9 May 2016

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

Sue Branford 5 May 2016

Chinese dam builder eyeing major Amazon mega-dam contract

Benjamin Blocksom translator, Piero Locatelli from Repórter Brasil 26 Feb 2016

62M ha of Latin American forests cleared for agriculture since 2001

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 May 2015

Archer Daniels Midland to demand suppliers stop chopping down forests

Mongabay.com 31 Mar 2015

Brazil’s soy moratorium dramatically reduced Amazon deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jan 2015

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