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Brazil beef giants linked to illegal Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 11 Dec 2020

Brazil’s blue macaws, golden lion tamarins back in traffickers’ sights

Dimas Marques 11 Dec 2020

Brazilians impacted by mining assert: ‘Genocide legalized by the state’

Thais Borges and Sue Branford 10 Dec 2020

Is Brazil’s biodiverse savanna getting the attention it deserves, finally?

Mike Gaworecki 9 Dec 2020

Dogs in Brazil are being trained to sniff out COVID-19 in humans

Matheus Lopes Quirino 9 Dec 2020

Illegal mining sparks malaria outbreak in Indigenous territories in Brazil

Eduardo Goulart de Andrade, Fábio Bispo, Hyury Potter 8 Dec 2020

As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy

Jenny Gonzales 4 Dec 2020

Planned road to bisect pristine, biodiverse Brazilian Amazon national park

Ana Ionova 3 Dec 2020

Unprecedented sightings of maned wolves in Amazon herald a changing landscape

Sibélia Zanon 2 Dec 2020
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation tops 11,000 sq km in Brazil, reaching 12-year high

Mongabay.com 30 Nov 2020

Fueled by impunity, invasions surge in Brazil’s Indigenous lands

Ana Ionova 25 Nov 2020

Trans-Purus: Brazil’s last intact Amazon forest at immediate risk (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside, Lucas Ferrante, Aurora M. Yanai, Marcos Antonio Isaac Júnior 24 Nov 2020

Crimefighting NGO tracks Brazil wildlife trade on WhatsApp and Facebook

Peter Yeung 23 Nov 2020

France falls short in ending deforestation linked to imported soy

Mongabay.com 20 Nov 2020

The Amazon’s Yanomami utterly abandoned by Brazilian authorities: Report

Sue Branford 19 Nov 2020

Brazil art exhibition showcases an Indigenous worldview and poses questions

Sibélia Zanon 19 Nov 2020

Multiplying Amazon river ports open new Brazil-to-China commodities routes

Manuela Andreoni, Diàlogo Chino 19 Nov 2020

‘CSI Amazon’: Epic study looks at what’s killing the rainforest’s trees

Liz Kimbrough 18 Nov 2020

Deadly anniversary: Rio Doce, Brazil’s worst environmental disaster, 5 years on

Ana Ionova 17 Nov 2020

What is a tayra? Candid Animal Cam is in the Americas

Romina Castagnino 17 Nov 2020
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

As 2020 Amazon fire season winds down, Brazil carbon emissions rise

Liz Kimbrough 16 Nov 2020

Brazil’s Bem Querer dam: An impending Amazon disaster (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 16 Nov 2020

Conserve freshwater or land biodiversity? Why not both, new study asks

Claire Asher 16 Nov 2020
Burnt forest, in Porto Velho, Rondônia state. 18 Aug, 2020 CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Amazon deforestation shoots higher in October, reversing 3-month trend

Mongabay.com 14 Nov 2020
amandua and Baita in a still from the documentary film Piripkura (2018). Image courtesy of Bruno Jorge.

Surrounded by intruders, the last of Brazil’s Piripkura hold out in the Amazon

Maurício Angelo 13 Nov 2020

Brazil sees record number of bids to mine illegally on Indigenous lands

Eduardo Goulart de Andrade, Hyury Potter, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 13 Nov 2020

Satellites, maps and the flow of cattle: Brazilian solutions for reducing deforestation are already in use

Naira Hofmeister, Fernanda Wenzel, Pedro Papini 12 Nov 2020

As fire season ends, Brazil cited for failed Amazon and Pantanal policies

Jenny Gonzales 9 Nov 2020

In Brazil’s Sooretama, a piece of the Amazon thrives in the Atlantic Forest

Leonardo Merçon 6 Nov 2020

Video: Vets hail ‘victory’ as jaguar burned in Pantanal fires returns to wild

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Nov 2020

BR-319: The beginning of the end for Brazil’s Amazon forest (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 3 Nov 2020

Rewilding key to averting mass extinctions and reducing carbon emissions

Meghie Rodrigues 3 Nov 2020

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