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 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...
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...
