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European supermarkets say Brazilian beef is off the menu

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Dec 2021

New study helps cattle ranchers monitor ecological impact on U.S. rangelands

Maxwell Radwin 12 Nov 2021
Soy-forest boundary. Photo credit: Mighty Earth

Timmermans vs. Bolsonaro: Will the EU get deforestation off our dinner plates? (commentary)

Nico Muzi 7 Oct 2021
Cattle ranch next to a recently deforested area in Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia, Brazil. Photo courtesy of Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance).

New permits for Brazilian beef exports to US could increase deforestation risk: Report

Maxwell Radwin 27 Sep 2021

11 Mongabay investigations in two years. Here’s what we found

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Sep 2021
Logging concession in Indonesia. Photo credit: Yudhi Mahendra / Mighty Earth

Fomenting a “Perfect Storm” to push companies to change: Q&A with Glenn Hurowitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2021
Cow in Colombia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Though nefarious, Russian hack of JBS should prompt environmental debate over meat “oligopoly” (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 25 Aug 2021

Tesco’s meat problem (commentary)

Robin Willoughby 3 Aug 2021

As blazes on embargoed Amazon land surge, links to meat industry emerge

Andrew Wasley, Elisângela Mendonça 30 Jul 2021

Beef industry causes deforestation in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park

Tatiana Pardo Ibarra 29 Jun 2021

Illegal clearing for agriculture is driving tropical deforestation: Report

Justin Catanoso 20 May 2021
Documentation of landcover and oil palm plantation development in PT Internusa Jaya Sejahtera (PT IJS), part of the Central Cipta Murdaya group, in April 2018. Photo credit: © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace

As illegal forest conversion for industrial ag worsens, this moment is pivotal (commentary)

Sam Lawson 20 May 2021

New beef scorecard measures brands against their deforestation promises

Aurora Solá 21 Apr 2021
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Beef giant JBS vows to go deforestation-free — 14 years from now

Aurora Solá 6 Apr 2021

Empowering Indigenous peoples crucial to climate, biodiversity crises: Study

Dimitri Selibas 2 Apr 2021

Brazil beef giants linked to illegal Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2020

Paraguay whistleblowers allege illegal deforestation cover up

Jack Davies 20 Nov 2020

Brazilian and international banks financing global deforestation: Reports

Sue Branford; Thais Borges; and Diego Rebouças 5 Nov 2020

Could disruptions in meat supply relieve pressure on the Amazon? (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 30 Sep 2020

No, ‘regenerative ranching’ is not good for grassland birds (commentary)

Jennifer Molidor 8 Sep 2020
Brazil might be a good candidate for increased feedlot production of beef. Photo by A.C. Moraes.

Europe’s richest countries importing Brazilian beef linked to millions of tons of emissions: Report

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2020

World Bank-backed attempt to commercialize Madagascar’s beef industry falters

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jul 2020

Concerned for the future, indigenous Nicaraguans lament lost habitats

Sandra Cuffe 16 Jun 2020
Cows grazing in Nicaragua's southern indigenous autonomous region in October,

Nicaraguan beef, grazed on deforested and stolen land, feeds global demand

Mario Rautner, Sandra Cuffe 10 Jun 2020

Some ranchers and conservationists agree: Grazing and logging can save birds

Jennifer Oldham 28 Apr 2020

Cattle put Paraguay’s Chaco biome at high risk, but report offers hope

Sarah Sax 8 Apr 2020

As COVID-19 spreads, commodity markets rumble

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Apr 2020

Versace, Amazon, Samsonite among companies listed as deforestation ‘laggards’

Liz Kimbrough 5 Mar 2020

A new dawn: The story of deforestation in the next decade must be different to the last (commentary)

Bastien Sachet 16 Jan 2020

Breaking down barriers: Cattle and wildlife compete in Southern Africa

Jim Tan 9 Dec 2019

British armed forces supplied by Brazilian meat firm linked to Amazon deforestation, corruption: Report

Mongabay.com 14 Oct 2019

Fires still being set in blazing Bolivia (commentary)

Claire Wordley 1 Oct 2019

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