10 October 2022
Brazil has cleared large parts of the Amazon rainforest for use as farmland, encouraging economic growth but causing environmental harm. Now researchers suggest that making intense use of already cleared land could avoid the need to fell any more trees
10 May 2022
The area cleared almost doubled year-on-year, from 579 square kilometres in April 2021 to 1012 square kilometres last month
14 September 2021
Prospects for South America's biggest wild cat are likely to get worse in the short term unless the Brazilian government strengthens protections against deforestation for timber and cattle farming
22 February 2021
The Brazilian government has passed 57 legislative acts that weaken environmental protections, half of which occurred during the covid-19 pandemic
16 July 2020
Around 20 per cent of the beef and soya the Euopean Union imports from Brazil has been linked to illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savanna
13 March 2020
Deforestation of the Amazon has continued at record levels this year, leading observers to warn the rainforest is disappearing faster than ever before
18 November 2019
The loss of nearly 10,000 square kilometres of forest in the Amazon between August 2018 to July 2019 is the first official confirmation that deforestation has soared since Jair Bolsnaro came to power
