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Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Brazil beef industry still struggling with deforestation from indirect suppliers, survey finds

Maxwell Radwin 26 Nov 2024

Goldman Prize honors Brazilian investigation linking JBS & deforestation

André Schröder 29 Apr 2024
Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

Meatpacking giant and Amazon deforester JBS bid for NYSE listing challenged

Shanna Hanbury 20 Sep 2023

In Nepal, Chepang take up the challenge to revive their cultural keystone tree

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 May 2023
Jaguars still roam the Chaco, but they require large tracts of contiguous forest to survive and reproduce. As forest is destroyed, fewer of these intact landscapes exist. Photo by Eduardo Merille via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Report links financial giants to deforestation of Paraguay’s Gran Chaco

Aimee Gabay 13 Apr 2023
On 22 June 2022 the farmers protest started in the Netherlands. Tractors from all over the country drove to Stroe. This picture was taken along the A27 near Houten, just in front of the Lunetten interchange. Image by Frank Magdelyns from Pixabay.

For Dutch farming crisis, agroforestry offers solutions: Q&A with Lennart Fuchs & Marc Buiter

Peter Speetjens 21 Mar 2023

JBS is accused of misleading investors with suspicious green bonds

Fernanda Wenzel 1 Feb 2023
Kibiwot displaying his archery skills at his makeshift home in the Embobut, which has been burned down many times by KFS as part of forceful evictions.

Kenyan hunter-gatherers forced to farm now face increased evictions from their forest

Kang-Chun Cheng 22 Jun 2022

Winter sanctuary in Nepal proves a killing field for yellow-breasted buntings

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 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
A bloated humpback whale on a beach in California, U.S.

That dead whale on the beach? Let it be, study says. Or at least don’t blow it up

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Mar 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

Campaigners against dog meat trade take on one Indonesian city at a time

Eko Widianto 7 Mar 2022

For Malagasy trapped in poverty, threatened lemurs and fossas are fair game

Malavika Vyawahare 4 Aug 2021

Soy and cattle team up to drive deforestation in South America: Study

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jul 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

Amazon meatpacking plants, a COVID-19 hotspot, may be ground zero for next pandemic

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini and Juliana Lopes from ((o))eco 11 Sep 2020

All talk, no walk: ‘Green’ financiers still support Amazon beef industry

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini e Juliana Lopes from ((o))eco 13 Aug 2020

Paper maze and lack of transparency cloak investment in companies involved in Amazon deforestation

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini and Juliana Lopes from ((o))eco 11 Aug 2020
Cattle at one of the 70,000 suppliers used by JBS, one of Brazil's largest beef producers. Photo courtesy of JBS

Investigation links meat giant JBS to Amazon deforestation

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2020

Where there’s cattle ranching and soybean farming, there’s fire, study finds

Marcelo Coppola 20 Jul 2020

Brazilian meatpacker expands with World Bank funding but fails to reduce impacts in the Amazon

Naira Hofmeister 9 Jul 2020

Brazilian taxpayers subsidizing Amazon-clearing cattle ranches, study shows

Naira Hofmeister 26 May 2020
Chickens. Image by Capri23auto via Pixabay.

Investors drop demands after Tyson Foods commits to no deforestation

Liz Kimbrough 20 Feb 2020

Brazilian meat giant JBS expands its reach in China

Mongabay.com 20 Feb 2020

Legal and illegal trade negatively impacting survival and wellbeing of Africa’s wildlife: Report

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2019

Land rights, forests, food systems central to limiting global warming: report

Justin Catanoso 15 Oct 2018

Drought-driven wildfires on rise in Amazon basin, upping CO2 release

Claire Asher 22 Feb 2018

Brazil 2017: environmental and indigenous rollbacks, rising violence

Sue Branford and Maurício Torres 27 Dec 2017

EU-LatAm trade deal good for agribusiness; bad for Amazon, climate – analysis

Sue Branford 18 Dec 2017

Amazon deforestation linked to McDonald’s and British retail giants

Anna Sophie Gross, Daniel Gross 4 Oct 2017

Brazil: a world champion in political and environmental devastation (commentary)

Giem Guimaraes 29 Sep 2017

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