Tag: Amazon

Hamburgers can help stop the rainforest deforestation

Burger King Vows to Stop Amazon Deforestation by 2030. That’s Too Late, Say Critics

The owner of Burger King has pledged to eliminate deforestation from its supply chains ...

Many areas in the Amazon are cleared to raise cattle - Adriano Gambarini/WWF-Brasil

Fed Up with Brazil, Norway Cuts Aid They Are Giving to Protect the Amazon

Michel Temer, the embattled president of Brazil, did not find any respite from his ...

King Harald V of Norway with an indigenous group in Brazil. Photo courtesy of Rainforest Foundation Norway

World’s Religious Leaders Get Together in Norway to Rescue the Rainforest

Religious leaders from around the world are meeting for the first time with conservationists ...

Forest on fire in Brazil

Brazil to Privatize Amazon’s Deforestation Monitoring. Deforesters Applaud

In the midst of the intense political turmoil unfolding in Brasília, a government move ...

Indian protests in Brasília against government - Mídia Ninja

A Few Reasons Why Michel Temer Should Step Down as President of Brazil

If you ask Google to translate the Portuguese word “temer”, the result is “to ...

Chief Geraldo Apurina, wife and children in front of their house - Chris Arsenault/Thomson Reuters Foundation

Indians Are the Best Answer to Save the Amazon. But There Is Less Room for Them in the New Brazil

Inside Brazil’s Indigenous Reserve 124, Chief Geraldo Apurina walks along a muddy footpath, past ...

Caboco on a fishing trip - Photo by Maximo Anderson

In a Brazil Where Worst Is Always Coming to Worst, These Men Stand Their Ground

Brazil has made headlines recently for almost entirely negative reasons — whether it is ...