Environment
Over 3,000 Brazilian Animal and Plant Species Are Endangered or Vulnerable to Extinction
Brazil has 3,229 animal and plant species under threat — 19.8 percent of the ...
Here Starts the End of Brazil’s Amazon Forest. It’s Called BR-319 Highway
The BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) Highway was built in the early 1970s by Brazil’s military ...
One Year After Guardian of the Forest’s Murder Nothing Has Changed in the Brazilian Amazon
Illegal loggers are operating unchecked in Brazil’s Amazon as coronavirus rages despite government vows ...
Brazil Determined to Hand Monitoring of Amazon Deforestation and Fire to the Military
In a recent announcement, Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourão defended the creation of a ...
Biden Ruffles Feathers in Brazil Threatening Country with Sanctions for Deforestation
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden called on the world to offer Brazil US$ ...
The Radical Changes Fires Are Causing the Amazon Flora and Fauna
The number of fires burning in standing Amazon rainforest spiked dramatically in recent weeks, ...
Legendary Amazon Chief Raoni Calls Brazil President a Liar for Blaming Indians for Wildfires
Brazil’s Chief Raoni Metuktire, one of the most iconic defenders of the Amazon, condemned ...
The Dramatic Struggle to Save the Threatened Blue Macaw from Brazil’s Pantanal Fires
In the 1960s, Luiz de Figueiredo Barretto bought the São Francisco do Perigara farm, ...
Brazil’s Guardians of the Forest: a Story of Bravery and Blood
If we ask Olimpio Santos Guajajara when the Guardians of the Forest were founded, ...
World’s Largest Tropical Wetland, the Brazilian Pantanal, Being Converted into Ashes
Fires are raging in the wetlands of west-central Brazil, leaving behind a vast swath ...