Tag: Amazon
For Amazon’s Largest Restoration Ever the Forest Will Get 73 Million New Trees in Six Years
A major initiative for the restoration of degraded areas in the Brazilian Amazon calls ...
The Revocation of Brazil’s Pro-Deforestation Decree Has No Teeth
On August 23, 2017, Brazil’s president Michel Temer issued a decree revoking the RENCA ...
Brazilian Indians Losing the Few Rights They Conquered in the Last Few Years
A ten-year anniversary of the United Nation’s landmark recognition of indigenous rights finds slow ...
Zero Deforestation Is the Only Answer in this Side of the Amazon
Perched at the easternmost edge of the Amazon rainforest is Maranhão, one of Brazil’s ...
Goldminers in Brazil Massacre Over Ten Indians from an Uncontacted Tribe
Public prosecutors in Brazil have opened an investigation after reports that illegal goldminers in ...
Want Sustainable Development for the Amazon? Let the Indians Take Care of It
The Brazilian government has earmarked a vast tract of Amazonian land for mining. The ...
Brazil President Spending Billions in Amendments and Decrees to Hang Onto the Presidency
What does it cost to hang onto the office of President? In Brazil, President ...
Brazil Ends Natural Reserve the Size of Norway and Is Accused of Crime Against the Amazon
A decree from President Michel Temer abolished the protected status of the National Reserve ...
Brazil Government and Private Registrars Blame Each Other for Land Titles Mess in the Amazon
For a farmer in Brazil’s Amazon, Manoel Freire Camurca was doing pretty well for ...
A Brazil Judge Rules Again in Favor of Land-grabbers, Against Peasants in the Amazon
Until this week, 80 impoverished families, camped for almost a year under black plastic ...
