PORTO VELHO, Brazil - Brazilian environmental agents seized the equivalent of more than 5,000 truckloads of timber in an operation targeting one of the most heavily logged regions of the Amazon ...
For almost two decades, Brazil's largest soy producers guaranteed their products did not come from land cleared in the Amazon rainforest. Now, all bets are off.
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists ...
Swedish-British billionaire Johan Eliasch made a significant move in 2005. He purchased a vast tract of Amazon rainforest in Brazil. His intention was not exploitation but protection. By acquiring a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s easy to forget sometimes that, alongside everything else that’s crowding your news brain right now, deforestation in the ...
The Forest Stewardship Council – an international body that certifies sustainable wood products – has suspended its approval of the logging company, Maderera Canales Tahuamanu, until November. However ...
The Tahuamanu River is a key transport route in this part of the Amazon. A permanent bridge will allow year-round truck access, which environmentalists say could accelerate logging and deforestation ...
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