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

Maxwell Radwin 5 Jul 2022

World Bank approves $200 million IFC loan for industrial agriculture in Brazil’s Cerrado

Maxwell Radwin 1 Jul 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
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

To cooperatively stop deforestation for commodities, navigating ‘legal’ vs ‘zero’ is key (commentary)

Michael Wolosin 9 Mar 2022

Pay or punish? Study looks at how to engage with farmers deforesting the Cerrado

Sarah Sax 25 Feb 2022

John Deere and Brazilian bank team up to equip farmers deforesting the Amazon

Andressa Santa Cruz, Naira Hofmeister and Pedro Papini 14 Feb 2022
3. San Ignacio de Velasco was one of the municipalities that lost the most forest cover in Bolivia in 2020. Agribusiness and cattle ranching, were one of the main drivers of this deforestation. Photo by Eduardo Franco and Ernst Drawert for Mongabay.

Forests for sale: How land traffickers profit by slicing up Bolivia’s protected areas

Eduardo Franco Berton 25 Nov 2021

Indigenous groups call for gov’t intervention as land grabbers invade Bolivian protected area

Iván Paredes Tamayo 12 Nov 2021
Cattle drive in Mato Grosso. Photo credit: Justiniano

Forest declarations are nice, but profitability determines land use in the Amazon (Book excerpt)

Timothy J. Killeen 12 Nov 2021

11 Mongabay investigations in two years. Here’s what we found

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Sep 2021

‘On the map’: App shines light on 5,000 ‘invisible’ families in Brazil’s Cerrado and beyond

Sarah Sax 10 Sep 2021
Logging concession in Indonesia. Photo credit: Yudhi Mahendra / Mighty Earth

Fomenting a “Perfect Storm” to push companies to change: Q&A with Glenn Hurowitz

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2021

Grain production depends on ending deforestation, studies show

Maurício Angelo 30 Aug 2021

End of deforestation tracker for Brazil’s Cerrado an ‘incalculable loss’

Fernanda Wenzel 19 Aug 2021

Debt deal with deforester BrasilAgro puts UBS’s green commitment in question

Fernanda Wenzel, Olivier Christe 6 Aug 2021
Soy and Chaco forest in Bolivia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

U.S., Argentine investors tied to illegal land deals, deforestation in Brazil

Caio de Freitas Paes, Agência Pública 29 Jul 2021

Cerrado desertification: Savanna could collapse within 30 years, says study

Fernanda Wenzel 28 Jul 2021
Image courtesy of Fernanda Meirelles, Idesam/ Observatório BR-319.

Illegal deforestation intensifies along Brazilian highway as agribusiness hopes swell

Ana Ionova 23 Jul 2021

As soy frenzy grips Brazil, deforestation closes in on Indigenous lands

Ana Ionova 21 Jul 2021

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

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jul 2021
Coastal net pens for salmon aquaculture in Norway. Image by Brataffe via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

For Norway salmon farms giving up deforestation-linked soy, Cargill proves a roadblock

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 7 Jul 2021

Demand for soy puts pressure on Pantanal, Brazil’s largest wild wetland

Fernanda Wenzel, Naira Hofmeister, Pedro Papini 23 Jun 2021
Deforestation for cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Norwegian poultry producer bars Brazilian soy due to deforestation risk

Mongabay.com 21 May 2021

Illegal clearing for agriculture is driving tropical deforestation: Report

Justin Catanoso 20 May 2021
Documentation of landcover and oil palm plantation development in PT Internusa Jaya Sejahtera (PT IJS), part of the Central Cipta Murdaya group, in April 2018. Photo credit: © Ulet Ifansasti / Greenpeace

As illegal forest conversion for industrial ag worsens, this moment is pivotal (commentary)

Sam Lawson 20 May 2021

Cattle-driven clearing continues in Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu protected area

Liz Kimbrough 16 Apr 2021
Deforestation for palm oil production in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Belgium bans biofuels made from palm oil, soy

Mongabay.com 13 Apr 2021

New palm oil frontier sparks scramble for land in the Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 12 Apr 2021

Freight train project that railroads Indigenous rights still on track

Jennifer Ann Thomas 16 Mar 2021

Pandemic fails to slow agribusiness’s thirst for Cerrado’s water

Caio de Freitas Paes 8 Feb 2021

‘Race against time’: Saving the snakes and lizards of Brazil’s Cerrado

Sharon Guynup 2 Feb 2021

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