Brazil: Atlantic Forest conservation efforts drown in a sea of eucalyptus
Since 2001, Brazil has almost doubled its area of protected land without increasing its conservation budget.
In the central corridor of the Atlantic...
Brazil: Pressure over water puts pulp industry in the spotlight
Brazil is the world's largest producer of eucalyptus-derived pulp and the state of Espírito Santo is one of its biggest production centers.
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Tapajos under attack 14: Amazon’s fate hangs on outcome of war...
The battle for the Amazon is being fought over two opposing viewpoints: the first, mostly held by indigenous and traditional people and their...
Tapajos under attack 13: Deforestation has become big business in the...
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Agamenom da Silva Menezes, is typical of modern Amazonian real estate operators: he is...
Tapajos under attack 12: Indigenous groups, the Amazon’s best land stewards,...
According to 2014 data for Legal Amazonia, 59 percent of that year’s illegal deforestation occurred on privately held lands, 27 percent in conservation...
Tapajos under attack 11: Amazon land speculators poised to gain control...
In the Brazilian Amazon, the paving of highways makes adjacent forests far more attractive to land thieves, resulting in major deforestation. The Sustainable BR-163...
Tapajos under attack 10: All crime and no punishment — Amazon...
Land grabbing and illegal ranching (even on public lands) has long been, and still is, big business in the Brazilian Amazon. Last year...
Tapajos under attack 9: Amazon Soy Moratorium: defeating deforestation or greenwash...
In the early 2000s, public outrage over Amazon clear cutting for soy production caused transnational grain companies including Cargill, Bunge and Brazil’s Amaggi,...
Tapajos under attack 8: The rush to turn the Amazon into...
The development over the last 40 years of Mato Grosso state in Brazil’s interior as an industrial agribusiness powerhouse has, from the beginning,...
Tapajos under attack 7: Soy invasion poses imminent threat to Amazon
The meteoric rise in soy production in the state of Mato Grosso is eating up rainforest and savanna at a staggering rate, with...