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 ...

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

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

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 ...