A large-scale federal operation to remove cattle raised illegally in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve has triggered ...

Amazonian fish are facing an alarming new threat. A series of extreme droughts is drying up the region's rivers and wetlands ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — With little fanfare and virtually ... of cattle ranchers who had illegally converted swathes of Amazon rainforest into pasture land. The new legislation, which was passed ...

A new bill recently approved by the Senate in Brazil undermines the licensing of projects that can have huge environmental ...

XINGUARA, Brazil -Decades of ranching in the Amazon have earned Roque Quagliato, Brazil’s “King of Cattle,” great wealth – ...

Brazil's Quilombola people, the descendants of Africans who escaped slavery, have lived in the nation's vast Amazon and ...

A record fire season in Brazil last year caused the rate of deforestation to accelerate, in a blow to President Luiz Inacio ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places ...

According to a 2023 audit by Brazil´s Federal Prosecution Service ... it will pose one of the greatest threats to the protection of all conservation areas facing land invasions,” said ...