By André Campos and Piero Locatelli |
02/10/20
Cattle ranching is the primary driver of deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon basin today (Photo: Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real) In July, a major policy to combat global warming was announced by BlackRock, the world’s largest investment fund manager. The company said it would...
By André Campos and Piero Locatelli |
02/10/20
Cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (Photo: Vinícius Mendonça/Ibama) Increasing deforestation in the Amazon in 2020 has prompted banks and funds to promise changes in investments that affect the region. Nordea, the largest...
By Maurício Hashizume | Photo: Marcos Vergueiro/Secom-MT |
08/09/20
The official crests of the towns of Marcelândia and Feliz Natal, in northern Mato Grosso, display three fallen logs and an ox, respectively. Deforestation, logging, and livestock are also ubiquitous in daily life and are related to the recent high rates of devastation...
By André Campos and João Cesar Diaz |
31/08/20
Two multinationals bought cocoa beans from a supplier employing slave-like labour in the state of Bahia. In investigations conducted by the Labour Prosecution Service (MPT), Repórter Brasil found a series of labour violations in the supply chains of Olam International...
By Daniel Camargos |
14/08/20
No one has been arrested or even indicted a year after ‘Fire Day,’ an attack organized by ranchers and businessmen from Novo Progresso, which tripled fires in southwest Pará state on August 10-11, 2019. Civil (State) Police and the Federal Police investigations have...
