Mourão insisted that the State has an obligation to preserve the plant lung, but also to improve the living conditions of those in the region. Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture estimated this week ...

Brazil’s success is helping it make the case for increased international funding and support not only for battling deforestation, but for maintaining those gains. Over the course of the next ...

Brazil’s government said it could not interfere with a landmark EU law banning imports of commodities linked to deforestation but will keep farming according to its own laws.

Policy changes in Brazil that have disincentivized deforestation of the Amazon for agriculture are credited with reducing hospitalizations and wildfire deaths by the ...

The companies have been collectively called the “terrible trio” due to their reported links to deforestation in Brazil, according to Mighty Earth’s Soy & Cattle Deforestation Tracker.

According to Brazil’s space agency, INPE, from August 2021 to July 2022, 28% of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon occurred in unallocated public lands. Even in 2023, whendeforestation rates ...

Brazil has come under increasing pressure to track direct and indirect suppliers, especially with the EU’s deforestation-free products regulation (EUDR) scheduled to go into effect at the end of ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Paraguayan authorities arrested 26 people in a crackdown on suspected illegal deforestation along the country’s border with Brazil and Argentina, Interpol announced Monday.