Tapajos under attack 6: As Sinop grew, the Amazon rainforest faded...
Sinop, a city of 125,000 people in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon in Mato Grosso state, is a modern success story. Prosperous and...
Brazil: the flesh is weak but the meat is rotten
São Paulo, March 22nd. With their usual fine sense of irony, the Federal Police named their latest operation, launched on Friday 17th, “Carne Fraca”...
Tapajós under attack 1: Temer government set to overthrow Brazil’s environmental...
A catastrophic setback to environmental and indigenous protections was narrowly averted last week when quick action from two federal deputies prevented the agricultural lobby...
Tapajós under attack 5: Greenwash in the Tapajós
The Tapajós River Basin lies at the heart of the Amazon, and at the heart of an exploding controversy: whether to build 40+ large...
Brazil: indigenous lives matter
São Paulo, 15 March. Despairing of finding justice in Brazil, cacique Ladio Veron of the Guarani Kaiowá indigenous people in Mato Grosso do Sul, ...
Tapajós under attack 4: Day of Terror in Tapajós river basin
The Tapajós River Basin lies at the heart of the Amazon, and at the heart of an exploding controversy: whether to build 40+ large...
Tapajós under attack 3: The End of a People – Munduruku...
The Tapajós River Basin lies at the heart of the Amazon, and at the heart of an exploding controversy: whether to build 40+ large...
Tapajós under attack 2. Battle for the Amazon – The Tapajós...
The Tapajós River Basin lies at the heart of the Amazon, and also at the heart of an exploding controversy: whether to build more...
Belize: Conservation in the forest
In a third and final blog post from Punta Gorda, Belize, Rachel joins an indigenous community led forest patrol and witnesses the damaging impacts...
Planned Tapajós industrial waterway — a potential environmental disaster
The Brazilian government has unexpectedly cancelled the large São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric dam yet, as a timely new study makes clear, immense social and environmental challenges still loom for the Tapajós river valley,