Journalism

The mystery surrounding gold exports has been broken by an exclusive Repórter Brasil: BP Trading saw exponential growth in the last two years with revenues of R$ 1.4 billion in 2019 

The public development bank BNDES is financing meatpacking companies that slaughter animals raised on farms that have been illegally deforested and use slave labour

Backhoe makers accelerate deforestation; companies claim to be committed to environmental protection, but do not take steps to curb illegal use

The workers at Cooxupé’s president’s farm had up to 30% of their wages deducted to pay for the use of portable harvesting machines that pull coffee tree branches to take the beans

‘Amazônia Real’ and ‘Repórter Brasil’ produced seven stories that show the path of gold from the illegal extraction that devastates the Yanomami Indigenous Territory to its transformation into luxury jewels

The Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area appears at the top of several lists of conservation units with the highest rates of deforestation and fires

Half of the state representatives who approved the reduction of protected areas in Rondônia are cattle ranchers or were financed by rural landowners

Banks funded meatpackers Ribeiro, Frigol, Fortefrigo and Masterboi, which bought around 78,000 head of cattle from areas with evidence of irregularities

Formoso Farm had been granted a provisional authorization for rural operation. However, the license was based on a mistaken Rural Environmental Registry from another area

An x-ray of the violence and impunity in rural areas of Brazil, with the stories behind the murder of 31 workers, indigenous leaders and environmentalists in the first year of the Bolsonaro government

According to an investigation by Repórter Brasil, blazes in the Brazilian tropical wetland started on cattle farms whose owners supply giants like JBS, Marfrig and Minerva

Kayapó and Panará peoples win in court the right to renew a plan to minimize the impacts of BR-163, a highway that threatens their territories. The Federal Government must present a plan to mitigate damages

American religious organizations map indigenous peoples in Brazil and do not disrupt actions with respect to uncontacted tribes, even during the pandemic. Contact with isolated groups was criticized by entities

Shy actions by the Mato Grosso state government and the Bolsonaro administration’s anti-environmental agenda encourage degradation of the Amazon forest in the state

The two financial institutions are the largest providers of credit to commodity industries, which are the chief driver of forests destruction in Brazil, according to a study conducted by the international coalition Forests & Finance

Workers living in terrible accommodation, with no bathrooms or drinking water, and paid below the minimum wage: that is the sad reality of cocoa production in Brazil that benefits agribusiness giants

No one has been arrested one year after the attack by ranchers and businessmen. Conflict between State and Federal Police as well as suspects’ ties to politicians may have hindered investigations

Gradual dismantling of state policies, with dismissal of experienced technicians and lower transparency, encourages actions by sectors that keep devastating the forest illegally and expect pardon and profits

Investigations by Repórter Brasil about the pharmaceutical industry reveal strategies to maximize profits and secure millionaire contracts with the federal government

Companies that manufacture and sell pesticides in Brazil are protected by a package of benefits that, counting just tax exemptions and reductions, add up to nearly R$10 billion (US$ 2.2 billion) every year

São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other 1,300 cities found pesticides in the water supply. Data from the Health Ministry shows that Brazilian drinking water is contaminated with ingredients associated with chronic diseases

Punished for buying livestock from deforested areas in 2017, the company still sources livestock from Amazon-deforesting companies. In the Amazon, an area equivalent to Brasilia is cleared annually to be converted into pasture

New survey by Repórter Brasil reveals cases of farmers fined for environmental crimes that link deforestation and burning to global meatpacking companies

Carrefour, Pão de Açúcar and another major supermarket chain bought products from meatpackers whose suppliers include ranchers charged with slave labor offencers

Agropecuária Santa Bárbara Xinguara – a company led by the banker who owns the Opportunity group – was granted an injunction to repossess a farm occupied in 2008 by 212 families in Eldorado dos Carajás

Brazilian labor inspectors found six employees in Minas Gerais state working in conditions analogous to slavery in farm certified by both Starbucks and Nestlé-controlled brand Nespresso

Lumberjack and politician bolsonarista, Silvério Fernandes, announces an accusatory campaign against Father Amaro, successor of the missionary Dorothy Stang, in Anapu (Pará)

Leading expert on modern-day slavery Kevin Bales talks about the lack of tools available to stop the flow of money from consumers to networks facilitating human rights abuse and environmental destruction

APP-based services and digital platforms grow worldwide. But the advance of the so-called “gig economy”, also known as “uberization”, has promoted debates on precariousness and intensification of work

The indigenous people of Maranão, one of the poorest regions of the country, got tired of waiting for help and decided to break with the society of Karaís, as non-indigenous call it