By Daniel Haidar |
26/02/24
Pressure mounts on the Lula administration to annul the contract that handed over 2,428 hectares of federal land to Canadian mining company Belo Sun to extract gold in an area allocated to a land reform settlement in Pará. Although the project is considered strategic...
By Isabel Harari and Poliana Dallabrida |
19/02/24
Audi, Uber, and 20 other companies offset greenhouse gas emissions using carbon credits from an area where the Brazilian authorities identified deforestation and the use of enslaved workers. In June 2023, 16 workers were rescued from the Sipasa Farm, owned by the...
By Hyury Potter |
06/10/23
In September 2023, a Federal Police operation investigating a R$10 billion illegal gold scheme carried out searches on Fênix DTVM, a company that also bought gold from Grota (Photo: Federal Police) Indicted by the Federal Police as the leader of an organization that...
By Hyury Potter | Featured Photo: Christian Braga/Climainfo |
04/10/23
The Tapajós River is a nesting site for Amazon River turtles in Monte Cristo, an area protected by IBAMA between the municipalities of Aveiro, Itaituba, and Rurópolis (Photo: Paulo Lopes/IBAMA) One of the main people investigated by the Federal Police for drug...
By Hyury Potter |
19/09/23
Open mining in the Tapajós Environmental Protection Area (PA), a conservation area near Itaituba that is a frequent target of illegal miners (Image: Christian Braga/ClimaInfo) In the hands of a Federal Police forensic expert, a 1 kilo gold bar is the size of a cell...
