Tag: Cerrado
Threat of Extinction to Brazilian Primates Is Also a Threat to the Forest
We tend to think of debt as purely financial, but we can also reap ...
Lula’s Victory as President Brings Hope that Jaguars Will Once Again Thrive in Brazil’s Pantanal
We cruised the murky brown shallows of the Corixo Negro, the Black Channel, in ...
Thousands Work as Slaves in Brazil’s Charcoal Industry
For more than a year, Antonio slept with a wasp nest humming above his ...
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 ...
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 ...
How Trump and Bolsonaro are Accelerating Climate Change and Planetary Apocalpyse
The Amazon is burning. Once more, as in the 1990s, an “arc of fire” ...
Don’t Expect Brazil’s Cerrado Forest to Be Saved by the Corporate World
To the south of the Amazon basin lies a huge savannah known as the ...
Brazil to Privatize Amazon’s Deforestation Monitoring. Deforesters Applaud
In the midst of the intense political turmoil unfolding in Brasília, a government move ...
Surprise! Brazil Gets New National Park and Sees Another Three Parks Expanded
In the midst of a delicate political moment, Brazilian president Michel Temer signed a ...
Brazil Savannah Becomes Magnet for Multinationals Despite Poor Infrastructure
Apart from research, the development of agriculture in the cerrado, the Brazilian savannah, is ...
