Tag: Conservation
Why Killings of Environmentalists and Indians Keep Increasing in Brazil: Almost Certain Impunity
When Jair Bolsonaro took office as president of Brazil at the start of 2019, ...
Amazon Indians Fear Coronavirus Amid a Campaign to Convert Them to Christianity
Indigenous leaders in Brazil are acting to avert the devastating impact coronavirus could have ...
Big Agribusiness Threatens Livelihood of 400.000 Coconut Breakers in Brazil’s Cerrado
Every September for half a century, Maria Antônia Trindade Mendes has started the babassu ...
Cattle Ranchers in the Amazon Could Earn More Farming. But They Wouldn’t Be Happy
Picture the Brazilian Amazon. You probably don’t see a lot of cows in that ...
Presented as Salvation of the Rainforest, the Amazon Soy Moratorium Is More Greenwash and Propaganda
At the turn of the 21st century, a juggernaut of expanding soy production moved ...
Brazil Is Losing Conservation Reserves. Mining Interests Seem to Be Behind the Move
New legislation in Brazil has been proposed to reduce or eliminate several Amazon conservation ...
Roads, Railways, Waterways, Dams: an Elaborate Plan to Kill the Amazon
The Amazon’s rivers once were sufficient for commerce, now international commodities traders want to ...
Roaming the Brazilian Amazon in Search of the Flying Monkey
The saki, or “flying monkey,” a mid-sized South American primate, gets its nickname from ...
Brazil Gets Country’s First Endangered Species Laboratory
Brazil's first Laboratory for Conservation of Endangered Species will be housed in the Federal ...
