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 Repórter Brasil |
06/05/20
UK armed forces in the Middle East are being served beef from a Brazilian company whose suppliers have illegally cleared more than 8,000 hectares (ha) of land – including swathes of the Amazon and Cerrado biomes. The case was revealed by a new Earthsight report,...
By Emilie Ekeberg of Danwatch |
29/01/20
The beef in the Danes’ minced beef and spaghetti bolognese has already been designated as one of the big climate culprits. When the meat comes from Brazil, it does not get any better. On the contrary. In addition to the long transport, the mighty Brazilian...
