By Maurício Hashizume | Photo: Felipe Werneck/Ibama |
10/08/20
Environmental inspection teams in the Amazon have decades of experience, which helped to reduce deforested and burned areas from 2005 to 2015. Now they are being supplanted, as technicians and public servants are replaced – along with all their knowledge – by a...
By João Cesar Diaz | published originally on June 16, 2020 |
27/07/20
While health agent Quitéria Ferreira dos Santos checks the size of freshly caught traíras (tiger fish), she explains how life works in the outskirts of Presidente Kennedy, a town in the south of Espírito Santo where this state border with Rio de Janeiro. “Everything...
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...
By Diego Junqueira |
17/06/20
Facing breast cancer for six years, retired nurse Joyce Guimarães is unmoved. When she started treatment with a drug that she could get for free at Brazil’s publicly funded healthcare system (SUS), she started to feel more motivated. But the ampoule disappeared...
