Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Wednesday highlighting the devastation caused by illegal cattle ranching in the Brazilian rainforest, and especially its impact on Indigenous peoples in ...

Brazilian beef is responsible for nearly 25% of tropical habitat loss each year. But there is an environmentally and ...

In the Brazilian state of Para, deep in the Amazon, mile upon mile of deforested land flanks the dusty road. Pastureland ...

As Brazil prepares to host the UN’s climate conference next month, its coffee industry is under growing scrutiny for fuelling ...

It’s especially problematic in Brazil — so much so that the European Union and United Kingdom have placed restrictions on ...

BRASILIA, Brazil -- The removal of hundreds of cattle raised illegally on public land designated for sustainable forest use in Brazil's Amazon has sparked protests and divided residents, with some ...

Brazilian banks have created new rules for releasing credit to meatpackers and slaughterhouses in Amazonian states in which their clients must implement traceability and monitoring systems by 2025 to ...

The hoary fox is the only canine endemic to both the Cerrado biome and Brazil; it’s now trying to survive among cattle pastures and soy plantations. Other threats resulting from human contact include ...

NOVA XAVANTINA, Brazil, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Farmers like Endrigo Dalcin are so keen to plant Brazil's biggest-ever soybean crop that they are tearing down the fences around once-sacred territory: ...

SAO PAULO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Brazil's Para state, which leads the country for the highest levels of Amazon rainforest destruction, will launch a mandatory program to track cattle in a bid to crack ...

CHICAGO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Brazil needs a mandatory government program to track cattle being raised for beef to prevent deforestation, the head of the world's largest meat company, Brazil's JBS SA ...