Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

The amendment eliminates the requirement that landowners or companies get state authorization before converting forested land ...

A Mongabay investigation that revealed an illegal cattle boom amid a record-high number of killings of Indigenous Guajajara ...

Brazilian researchers are using laser technology to unearth a lost Portuguese colony and challenge long-held beliefs about ...

Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil's bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port ...

Pupy the elephant has arrived at her new home in a sanctuary in Mato Grosso, Brazil, following a 2,700-kilometer journey from a zoo converted into an ecological park in Argentina’s capital where she ...

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Some 8,000 Indigenous people from the Amazon rainforest and the Pacific converged on Brazil's capital Monday to demand an equal say as politicians when the country hosts this year's UN climate ...

2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A transformative initiative in the Brazilian Amazon is protecting nearly 400,000 hectares of rainforest while helping local communities build sustainable livelihoods.