By André Campos and Carlos Juliano Barros | Photo: Adriano Gambarini (WWF Brasil) | published orginally on June 10, 2020 |
30/06/20
As the breadbasket of Brazilian agribusiness and the ‘water tank’ of river basins in biomes such as the Amazon, Caatinga and Pantanal, Cerrado has already lost half of its original vegetation cover to pastures and crops such as soybean, corn and cotton. While the rate...
By André Campos and Carlos Juliano Barros | published originally on June 8, 2020 |
30/06/20
The town of São Félix do Xingu, in the state of Pará, which borders on the Apyterewa Indigenous Land, has 17 heads of cattle per resident (Photo: Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace) With 10% of its territory already deforested and almost 500 fire outbursts in the past year...
By André Campos and Carlos Juliano Barros | published originally on June 12, 2020 | |
29/06/20
Legal farms that receive cattle raised in banned areas and mask its illegal origin. Property titles that elude monitoring by meatpacking companies. Rural properties leased to third parties that elude control by meatpackers. These are common situations in the Amazonian...
Por Pedro Grigori - Agência Pública/Repórter Brasil |
29/06/20
Especialistas enxergam no uso excessivo de agrotóxicos um dos fatores que pode ter contribuído para o fenômeno, pois pode causar a diminuição dos predadores naturais do gafanhoto (Foto: Senasa/Divulgação)) Na última semana, uma grande nuvem de gafanhotos vinda da...
Por André Campos e Carlos Juliano Barros |
29/06/20
Na última semana de junho, representantes de importantes fundos de investimento internacionais com ativos estimados em R$ 20 trilhões publicaram uma carta aberta pedindo ao governo brasileiro que detenha o desmatamento na Amazônia. Em maio, um grupo de 40...
