Amazon Cattle Investigations News

A cattle ranch in a deforeated area.

A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Apr 2024

A cattle ranch in a deforeated area.

A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Apr 2024

Cattle in Pará state.

EU bill and new green policies spur progress on Brazil’s cattle tracking

André Schröder 21 Sep 2023

A rancher herds cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

How the Amazon’s ‘greatest devastator’ sold cattle to a Carrefour supplier

Marina Rossi, Daniel Camargos, Hyury Potter 29 Aug 2023

Cows in Terra do Meio Ecological Station.

In Brazil, criminals dismantle one of the best-preserved swaths of the Amazon

Ana Ionova 23 Feb 2023

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

‘They will die’: Fears for the last Piripkura as Amazon invasion ramps up

Fernanda Wenzel 3 Dec 2021

Cattle ranch next to a recently deforested area in Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia, Brazil. Photo courtesy of Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance).

New permits for Brazilian beef exports to US could increase deforestation risk: Report

Maxwell Radwin 27 Sep 2021

As blazes on embargoed Amazon land surge, links to meat industry emerge

Andrew Wasley, Elisângela Mendonça 30 Jul 2021

Beef industry causes deforestation in Colombia’s Chiribiquete National Park

Tatiana Pardo Ibarra 29 Jun 2021

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

Naira Hofmeister 9 Jul 2020

Brazilian beef industry plays outsized role in tropical carbon emissions: report

Zoe Sullivan 3 Oct 2019

World’s biggest meatpackers buying cattle from deforesters in Amazon

André Campos - Repórter Brasil 19 Sep 2019

UK supermarkets implicated in Amazon deforestation supply chain: report

Sarah Sax 13 May 2019

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