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A pair of jaguars.

Ecotourism and education: Win-win solution for Pantanal jaguars and ranchers

Sarah Brown 20 Jan 2023
Triunfo do Xingu, a sustainable development reserve in the Brazilian state of Pará, has in recent years become the epicenter of the forest destruction gripping the Amazon Rainforest. Cattle ranching is responsible for much of the destruction, but wildcat mining and land grabbing are fast advancing too. Across the reserve, toppled trees, open-pit mines and charred jungle are a common sight. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

Deforestation ‘out of control’ in reserve in Brazil’s cattle capital

Ana Ionova 11 Jan 2023

In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve

Ana Ionova 29 Dec 2022

To cut emissions from cattle ranching, beef up the soil, study says

Shanna Hanbury 20 Dec 2022
Pablo Sibas Sibas delivering a testimony at the HRD Memorial Vigil in Dublin, during the Front Line Defenders Dublin Platform 2022. Image by Kamil Krawczak

‘We go in and take Indigenous lands back from cattle ranchers’: Q&A with activist Pablo Sibar

Kimberley Brown 21 Nov 2022
Aerial photo of thick rainforest and the plowed fields of crops.

Growing soy on cattle pasture can eliminate Amazon deforestation in Brazil

Sarah Brown 4 Nov 2022

Beef is still coming from protected areas in the Amazon, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 18 Oct 2022

The protected area that isn’t: Bolivia’s Ñembi Guasu beset by fires, farms, roads

Rocío Lloret 17 Oct 2022

Zero-deforestation commitments ‘fundamentally limited’ in tackling deforestation, study argues

Sean Mowbray 16 Sep 2022

‘Brazilians aren’t familiar with the Amazon’: Q&A with Ângela Mendes

Carolina Conti 1 Sep 2022
An SOS Pantanal firefighter battles a blaze. Image by Gustavo Figueiroa/SOS Pantanal.

In Brazil’s Pantanal, early flames signal a ‘new normal’

Ana Ionova 15 Aug 2022
Cattle ranch in Mato Grosso

New Brazil bill puts cattle pasture over Pantanal wetland

Sarah Brown 9 Aug 2022

Net-zero commitments must include more anti-deforestation policies, UN tells private sector

Maxwell Radwin 5 Jul 2022

For traditional peoples in Brazil’s Maranhão state, progress brings violence

Ed Wilson Araújo 9 Jun 2022
A rancher herds cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

Foreign capital powers Brazil’s meatpackers and helps deforest the Amazon

Moyra Ashford, Sue Branford 7 Jun 2022
The Terra do Meio Ecological Station, near the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protected Area, is home to margays (Leopardus wiedii), small wild cats native to South and Central America. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Pasture replaces large tract of intact primary forest in Brazilian protected area

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2022
Ranchers who received customized training made more sustainable changes to their properties, including pasture restoration, that led to both economic and environmental benefits, researchers say.

Training on pasture recovery is a win-win for Brazil’s cattle ranchers and forests

Sarah Brown 12 May 2022
Guireja, an Ayoreo woman, sits outside her house that she was forced to abandon as a result of logging, Paraguay. Image by Survival.

Indigenous group defends uncontacted relatives from cattle onslaught in the Gran Chaco

Liz Kimbrough 3 May 2022

New report pieces together toll of environmental damage in Venezuela in 2021

Maxwell Radwin 20 Apr 2022
An Indigenous man practices a ritual in front of a large crowd during the Free Land Camp 2022. Around 6,000 Indigenous people gathered in Brasília where they debated current issues that are affecting Indigenous and traditional peoples’ rights.

Forest loss shows stopgap decrees failing to protect Brazil’s isolated Indigenous

Sarah Brown 15 Apr 2022
Piñatex fibers in the drying stage. The pineapple leaf fiber has great tensile strength and flexibility. Image courtesy of Riikka Juva/Ananas Anam.

Sustainable fashion: Biomaterial revolution replacing fur and skins

Jenny Gonzales 8 Apr 2022
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

‘Giving up’: Amazon is losing its resilience under human pressure, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2022
Gold mining in the Kayapó Indigenous Territory in 2022. Image credit: NASA

Brazil’s ecosystem of crime in the Amazon (commentary)

Laura Waisbich; Melina Risso; and Ilona Szabo 21 Mar 2022

El Salvador declares rare ‘red alert’ amid surge in forest fires

Maxwell Radwin 4 Mar 2022

Cattle boom in Brazil’s Acre spells doom for Amazon rainforest, activists warn

Sarah Brown 7 Jan 2022
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021
An official from Operation Green Brazil surveys a deforested and burned landscape. Image by Ibama via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

‘Rampant forest destruction’ wracks reserve as cattle ranching advances in Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 29 Dec 2021
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

The year in rainforests 2021

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Dec 2021

Slashed forest protections ignites land grabbing frenzy in Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 22 Dec 2021
Cattle in Brazil

European supermarkets say Brazilian beef is off the menu

Ashoka Mukpo 16 Dec 2021

‘They will die’: Fears for the last Piripkura as Amazon invasion ramps up

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Dec 2021
Image courtesy of Rixster II

Potty-trained cows? Teaching cattle where to urinate could help reduce greenhouse gases

Emily Moskal 30 Nov 2021

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