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Brazilian beef giant on defensive on its Amazon sourcing practices

Jaguars photographed in palm oil plantation

Brazil finalizes 2011 deforestation data

President Rousseff vetoes some controversial changes to Brazil’s Forest Code

Tropical dams are a false solution to climate change

Brazil’s Rousseff vetoes part of controversial Forest Code revision

Greenpeace lifts pig iron ship blockade in Brazil

Value of timber stocks could predict future logging roads, deforestation in the Amazon

Brazilian deforestation lower in 2012 to date

U.S. car manufacturers linked to Amazon destruction, slave labor

Greenpeace makes social media push for zero deforestation in Brazil

Can loggers be conservationists?

Pictures of Yasuni, Ecuador’s rainforest gem

Brazil’s Congress OKs weakened version of forest law; environmentalists outraged

Oil company Perenco endangering ‘uncontacted’ indigenous people, says Peru

Featured video: How to save the Amazon

Protesters hit Brazilian mining giant Vale over involvement in Belo Monte

Photos: Uncontacted Amazon tribes documented for first time in Colombia

Indigenous groups oppose priest pushing for road through uncontacted tribes’ land

Will mega-dams destroy the Amazon?

Pictures: Destruction of the Amazon’s Xingu River begins for Belo Monte Dam

Amazon tribe becomes first to get OK to sell REDD credits for rainforest conservation

Scientists unlock indigenous secret to sustainable agriculture in the Amazon’s savannas

U.S. gobbling illegal wood from Peru’s Amazon rainforest

Brazil can eliminate deforestation by 2020, says governor of giant Amazon state

BP moves into the Amazon rainforest

Judge suspends Brazilian dam that would flood sacred waterfalls

Researchers launch tool that predicts Amazon deforestation a year before it happens

Brazil’s indigenous affairs ministry: $32B carbon deal not valid

Government policy contributes to huge drop in Amazon deforestation in Brazil

Indigenous groups fight for recognition and illumination in Peru

Belo Monte Dam: A spearhead for Brazil’s dam-building attack on the Amazon?

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