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Drone view of Chiquitano forest recently deforested on the edge of the Bolivian Amazon for soy production. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Investors warn soy giants of backlash over deforestation in South America

James Fair 18 Mar 2019
Fresh oil palm fruit bunches. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Europe, in bid to phase out palm biofuel, leaves fans and foes dismayed

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Mar 2019

New maps show where humans are pushing species closer to extinction

John Cannon 15 Mar 2019
Camera trap image showing a jaguar on a road at San Miguelito. Courtesy of Duston Larsen.

Can jaguar tourism save Bolivia’s fast dwindling forests?

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Mar 2019

Saving the Cerrado: Six commodities traders to disclose supply chain data

Alicia Prager 7 Mar 2019

Without indigenous leadership, zero-deforestation policies will fail (commentary)

Malika Virah-Sawmy, Tiago Reis 5 Mar 2019

Brazil’s New Forest Code puts vast areas of protected Amazon forest at risk

Claire Asher 4 Mar 2019

Brazil wants to legalize agribusiness leasing of indigenous lands

Jenny Gonzales 21 Feb 2019

Cerrado farmer shot amid escalating conflict with agribusiness

Flávia Milhorance 21 Feb 2019

Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting

Jan Rocha 20 Feb 2019

EU action plan on tropical deforestation must be beefed up, or it will fail (commentary)

Sam Lawson 8 Feb 2019

Bolsonaro government reveals plan to develop the ‘Unproductive Amazon’

Jan Rocha 28 Jan 2019

As Brazilian agribusiness booms, family farms feed the nation

Anna Sophie Gross 17 Jan 2019

Brazilian hunger for meat fattened on soy is deforesting the Cerrado: report

Giovanni Ortolani 16 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro acts; Brazil’s socio-environmental groups resist

Sue Branford, Thais Borges 14 Jan 2019

Brazil’s indigenous agency acts to protect isolated Kawahiva people

Sue Branford 3 Jan 2019

Bolsonaro hands over indigenous land demarcation to agriculture ministry

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 2 Jan 2019

Amazon soy boom poses urgent existential threat to landless movement

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 20 Dec 2018

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

Mike Gaworecki 14 Dec 2018

COP24: Will they stay or will they go? Brazil’s threat to leave Paris

Justin Catanoso 14 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

Tax havens and Brazilian Amazon deforestation linked: study

Giovanni Ortolani 21 Nov 2018

Purus-Madeira: the Amazon arc of deforestation marches north

Gustavo Faleiros, Marcio Isensee e Sá 20 Nov 2018

Could Brazil be on verge of one of world’s biggest conservation agreements? (commentary)

David Cleary 19 Nov 2018

Bolsonaro pledges government shakeup, deregulation, Amazon development

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 19 Nov 2018

Saving the Amazon has come at the cost of Cerrado deforestation: study

Claire Asher 15 Nov 2018

Merger of Brazil’s agriculture and environment ministries in limbo

Jenny Gonzales 12 Nov 2018

China increasingly involved in Brazil’s ambitious Amazon rail network

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 8 Nov 2018

The Brazilian government’s land war against rebel slave descendants

Anna Sophie Gross 29 Oct 2018

Grainrail: ‘2nd revolution in Brazilian agribusiness’ and Amazon threat

Sue Branford, Mauricio Torres 22 Oct 2018

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

Philip M. Fearnside 12 Oct 2018

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