Cerrado News

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

Sarah Sax 10 Sep 2021

For Brazil’s most trafficked parrot, the poaching is relentless

Dimas Marques 1 Sep 2020

Harvard’s half-billion land stake in Brazil marred by conflict and abuse

Maurício Angelo 19 Aug 2020

Corn growers in Brazil’s Cerrado reap a hostile climate of their own making

Maurício Angelo 15 Jul 2020

China and EU appetite for soy drives Brazilian deforestation, climate change: Study

Chris Arsenault 23 Jun 2020

Soy made the Cerrado a breadbasket; climate change may end that

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 5 May 2020

‘We are invisible’: Brazilian Cerrado quilombos fight for land and lives

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 30 Apr 2020

Brazil sets record for highly hazardous pesticide consumption: Report

Jenny Gonzales 12 Mar 2020

Painting with fire: Cerrado land managers learn from traditional peoples

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 3 Mar 2020

A bloody January for Brazil’s indigenous Kaiowá spotlights persecution

Caio de Freitas Paes 2 Mar 2020

Private firms will pay soy farmers not to deforest Brazil’s Cerrado

Sarah Sax 11 Feb 2020

Cerrado in crisis: One Brazilian farm family commits to sustainable soy

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 10 Feb 2020

Brazil investigates agribusiness bribes to judges for favorable land rulings

Maurício Angelo 27 Nov 2019

Brazil’s ‘coconut breakers’ feel the squeeze of Cerrado development

Sarah Sax and Maurício Angelo 12 Nov 2019

Cargill rejects Cerrado soy moratorium, pledges $30 million search for ideas

Sarah Sax 10 Jul 2019

Bolsonaro administration authorizes 150+ pesticides in first 100 days

Sue Branford and Thais Borges 2 May 2019

Brazil’s key deforestation drivers: Pasture, cropland, land speculation

Alicia Prager 19 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 A. Butler 7 Mar 2019

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

Alicia Prager 7 Mar 2019

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

Anna Sophie Gross 19 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

Trase.earth tracks commodities, links supply chains to deforestation risk

Claire Asher 13 Aug 2018

Coatimundi in Brazil. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

More companies sign on to Cerrado Manifesto

Genevieve Belmaker 6 Aug 2018

Temer’s deforestation policies put Paris goals at risk, scientists warn

Sue Branford 24 Jul 2018

Cerrado: traditional communities win back land from agribusiness firm

Flávia Milhorance 5 Jul 2018

Cerrado: abandoned pasturelands fail to regain savanna biodiversity

Anna Sophie Gross 20 Apr 2018

Brazil’s actual forest-related CO2 emissions could blow by Paris pledge

Claire Asher 19 Apr 2018

Cerrado Manifesto could curb deforestation, but needs support: experts

Anna Sophie Gross 29 Mar 2018

Cerrado: U.S. investment spurs land theft, deforestation in Brazil, say experts

Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance 28 Mar 2018

Cerrado: Agribusiness boomtown; profits for a few, hardships for many

Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance 26 Mar 2018

Cerrado: Traditional communities accuse agribusiness of ‘green land grabbing’

Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance 22 Mar 2018

Cerrado: Agribusiness may be killing Brazil’s ‘birthplace of waters’

Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance 19 Mar 2018

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