By André Campos and Carlos Juliano Barros | Photo: Adriano Gambarini (WWF Brasil) | published orginally on June 10, 2020 |
30/06/20
As the breadbasket of Brazilian agribusiness and the ‘water tank’ of river basins in biomes such as the Amazon, Caatinga and Pantanal, Cerrado has already lost half of its original vegetation cover to pastures and crops such as soybean, corn and cotton. While the rate...
By André Campos and Carlos Juliano Barros | published originally on June 8, 2020 |
30/06/20
The town of São Félix do Xingu, in the state of Pará, which borders on the Apyterewa Indigenous Land, has 17 heads of cattle per resident (Photo: Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace) With 10% of its territory already deforested and almost 500 fire outbursts in the past year...
By André Campos and Carlos Juliano Barros | published originally on June 12, 2020 | |
29/06/20
Legal farms that receive cattle raised in banned areas and mask its illegal origin. Property titles that elude monitoring by meatpacking companies. Rural properties leased to third parties that elude control by meatpackers. These are common situations in the Amazonian...
By Diego Junqueira |
17/06/20
Facing breast cancer for six years, retired nurse Joyce Guimarães is unmoved. When she started treatment with a drug that she could get for free at Brazil’s publicly funded healthcare system (SUS), she started to feel more motivated. But the ampoule disappeared...
By Diego Junqueira and Reinaldo Chaves |
17/06/20
What makes a millionaire businessman from São Paulo from the pharmaceutical industry to spend 1.5 million BRL (US$ 404,000) in the last electoral campaign and guarantee an alternate seat in the Senate for Tocantins? No longer needing “intermediaries”,...
By Diego Junqueira |
17/06/20
“I would certainly pay for my cure, but I don’t have 364,000 BRL (US$ 87,500),” says biologist Fabiana Sobral, 41, who has been waiting at SUS (Public Health System) for medications against hepatitis C for three months. Like the biologist, about...
