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Investigation reveals slave labor conditions in Brazil’s timber industry

Thais Lazzeri, from Repórter Brasil 13 Mar 2017

Big data timber exchange partners with FSC in Brazil

Mongabay.com 13 Mar 2017
2. The Belo Monte megadam, Pará state, northwestern Brazil. The dam cut off the Xingu River and reduced its flow by 80 per cent, December 2016. Photo by Maximo Anderson for Mongabay

Displaced by Brazil’s giant Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, ‘river people’ reoccupy reservoir

Maximo Anderson 13 Mar 2017

New bill aims to cut protection of 1M hectares of Brazilian rainforest

Benji Jones 10 Mar 2017
Cattle at one of the 70,000 suppliers used by JBS, one of Brazil's largest beef producers. Photo courtesy of JBS

Cattle industry lags behind in addressing impact on deforestation

Tara MacIsaac 9 Mar 2017

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
Eucalyptus tree. Photo by Bidgee/Wikimedia Commons

Pressure over water in Brazil puts pulp industry in the spotlight

Ignacio Amigo 2 Mar 2017

The changing face of Amazon development: from land grab to eco-lodge

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 23 Feb 2017

Judge halts excavation plans for largest-ever Brazilian goldmine

Zoe Sullivan 22 Feb 2017

What happens when the soy and palm oil boom ends?

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 Feb 2017

Protected areas found to be ‘significant’ sources of carbon emissions

Benji Jones 17 Feb 2017

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

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 15 Feb 2017
Kalapalo tribal men, an indigenous group that lives in the Xingu Resex in 2008. Photo by Eduardo Giacomazzi/Wikimedia Commons

Brazil’s ‘river people’ join forces with indigenous communities, offer alternative to deforestation

Maximo Anderson 10 Feb 2017

Soy invasion poses imminent threat to Amazon, say agricultural experts

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 8 Feb 2017

Scientists launch expedition to find missing monkeys

Christina Selby 2 Feb 2017

Birds wanted: Recovering forests need avian assist 

Mongabay.com 2 Feb 2017

Brazil alters indigenous land demarcation process, sparking conflict

Jenny Gonzales 2 Feb 2017

Introducing Mongabay news alerts

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2017

Battle for the Amazon: As Sinop grew, the Amazon rainforest faded away

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 1 Feb 2017

Primates face impending extinction – what’s next?

Russell A. Mittermeier, Anthony B. Rylands 24 Jan 2017

Is Brazil green washing hydropower? The case of the Teles Pires dam

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 18 Jan 2017

‘Day of Terror’: Munduruku village attacked by Brazil’s Federal Police

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 11 Jan 2017

New maps show how our consumption impacts wildlife thousands of miles away

Shreya Dasgupta 6 Jan 2017

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

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 5 Jan 2017

What to expect for rainforests in 2017

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2017

Battle for the Amazon: Tapajós Basin threatened by massive development

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 3 Jan 2017
Renowned chef Alex Atala’s golden Amazonian ant over coconut meringue. Courtesy Netflix Chef’s Table and Chef Table Season 2. Photo by Zhana Leeson

Food from Brazil’s Amazon finds its way to metropolitan tables

Carolina Torres 2 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

Resource wars: Brazilian gold miners go up against indigenous people

Zoe Sullivan 15 Dec 2016

Brazilian state invites private companies to run Atlantic Forest parks

Carolina Torres 15 Dec 2016

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