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Brazil: Bolsonaro supporter works to imprison Dorothy Stang’s successor

Daniel Camargos, Roberto Cataldo 28 Dec 2018

For embattled environmental defenders, a reprieve of sorts in 2018

Taran Volckhausen 24 Dec 2018

Ten years on, Amazon Fund receives applause, criticism, faces new tests

Fabíola Ortiz 21 Dec 2018

Amazon soy boom poses urgent existential threat to landless movement

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 20 Dec 2018

Bolsonaro shapes administration: Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

Sue Branford, Thais Borges, Mauricio Torres 18 Dec 2018

‘Amazon Besieged’: Q&A with Mongabay contributor Sue Branford about new book

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

Belo Monte dam Xingu River Management Plan violates human rights: finding

Max Nathanson 10 Dec 2018

Amazon indigenous groups and truckers ally to oppose Brazil’s Grainrail

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 6 Dec 2018

Santo Antônio mega-dam on Brazil’s Madeira River disrupts local lives

Sonya Cunningham 3 Dec 2018

Bolsonaro pledges government shakeup, deregulation, Amazon development

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 19 Nov 2018

Merger of Brazil’s agriculture and environment ministries in limbo

Jenny Gonzales 12 Nov 2018

Cerrado farm community fights for life against dam and eucalyptus growers

Anna Sophie Gross 7 Nov 2018

The Brazilian government’s land war against rebel slave descendants

Anna Sophie Gross 29 Oct 2018

Violence spikes during Brazil elections, rural minorities fear worse

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 24 Oct 2018

Amazon and climate science threatened if Bolsonaro elected Brazil’s president (commentary)

17 Latin American scientists 23 Oct 2018

Jair Bolsonaro: looming threat to the Amazon and global climate?

Jenny Gonzales 18 Oct 2018

Fate of the Amazon is on the ballot in Brazil’s presidential election (commentary)

Aline C. Soterroni, Fernando M. Ramos, Michael Obersteiner, Stephen Polasky 17 Oct 2018
Aloisio Sampaio, a trade unionist known as Alenquer, the leader of the KM Mil landless peasant occupation. He was murdered on 11 October. Image by Thais Borges.

Landless movement leader assassinated in Brazilian Amazon

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 15 Oct 2018

Amazonia and the setbacks of Brazil’s political moment (commentary)

Philip M. Fearnside 12 Oct 2018

Scientists, conservationists: Give Nobel Peace Prize to Jane Goodall

Mongabay.com 11 Oct 2018

8,100-square-mile indigenous reserve recognized in Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 5 Oct 2018

Cerrado towns terrorized to provide toilet paper for the world, say critics

Anna Sophie Gross 2 Oct 2018

‘Predatory agribusiness’ likely to gain more power in Brazil election: report

Ana Magalhães for Repórter Brasil 28 Sep 2018

Connect the dots: Cerrado soy drives inequality to provide EU with chicken

Anna Sophie Gross 19 Sep 2018

Slave labor found at Starbucks-certified Brazil coffee plantation

Daniela Penha contributor for Repórter Brasil 18 Sep 2018

Brazilian elections and the environment: where top candidates stand

Jenny Gonzales 17 Sep 2018

World’s first indigenous carbon offset project suspended due to illegal mining

Max Nathanson 11 Sep 2018
Cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Brazilian legislators break law, attack Amazon, trade freely with world: report

Sue Branford 11 Sep 2018

Brazil’s pesticide poisoning problem poses global dilemma, say critics

Anna Sophie Gross 27 Aug 2018

Community-run trading posts help Amazon forest people reverse rural exodus

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 23 Aug 2018

Brazil austerity policies devastating to rural communities: analysis

Anna Sophie Gross 14 Aug 2018

Death foretold? A courageous Amazon peasant couple resists illegal loggers

Thais Borges, Mauricio Torres 10 Aug 2018

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