By Mariana Della Barba and Diego Toledo |
15/10/20
Foreign missionaries working in Brazil are targeting isolated people living in the Amazon Region (Photo: Gleilson Miranda/Government of Acre) “God allow them to find their lost children,” says one of the websites of foreign missionary groups that work to...
By Daniel Camargos and André Campos | Photo: João Paulo Guimarães |
08/10/20
Part of the fire devastating the Pantanal in Mato Grosso started in farms whose owners sell cattle to former minister and former senator Blairo Maggi’s Amaggi group and to the Bom Futuro group, which belongs to Eraí Maggi, considered the world’s largest soy producer....
By Maurício Hashizume |
08/10/20
In mid-August, Kayapó indigenous people took yellow posters not only to the middle of the federal road known as BR-163 but also to the world’s headlines. Taking extra risks because of Covid-19, they left their villages and occupied the road that connects Cuiabá, in...
By André Campos and Piero Locatelli |
02/10/20
Cattle ranching is the primary driver of deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon basin today (Photo: Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real) In July, a major policy to combat global warming was announced by BlackRock, the world’s largest investment fund manager. The company said it would...
By André Campos and Piero Locatelli |
02/10/20
Cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (Photo: Vinícius Mendonça/Ibama) Increasing deforestation in the Amazon in 2020 has prompted banks and funds to promise changes in investments that affect the region. Nordea, the largest...
