With the guerrillas relinquishing control, cattle ranchers are moving in to buy out farmers and exploit a new frontier. Though the Amazon rainforest proved a useful screen for FARC, with the ...

The Amazon Rainforest The Amazon Rainforest is often referred to as the "lungs of the Earth," due to its vast capacity to ...

Sadly, the Amazon rainforest is a rapidly disappearing ... Clearing the trees also creates areas for cattle ranching, soybean farming, and the construction of roads and houses.

At COP16 in Cali, WWF, in collaboration with the Chalmers University of Technology, Trase, and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), launched an eye-opening report, “Uncovering Sub-Regional ...

Made from the sap of the shiringa tree, the biomaterial combats land-grabbing for deforestation, supports communities that ...

Will the Amazon’s climate return to normal ... These tactics allow land grabbers to clear vast tracts of rainforest for cattle ranching or soy plantations, driving deforestation and often ...

Who should decide the fate of the Amazon rainforest ... an area where thousands of acres of forest has been replaced by cattle ranching and soya crops. Listen Listen to an excerpt from Newshour ...

A federal court in Brazil ordered a rancher to pay more than $50 million for destroying part of the Amazon rainforest ... to establish pasture for raising cattle. Satellite images showed the ...

Brazilian firm JBS, the world's biggest meat processing company, was again accused on Monday of “laundering” cattle from ranches blacklisted for destroying the Amazon rainforest. The charge ...

We're asking President Lula da Silva to announce an immediate end to the felling of Amazon trees to create large cattle ranches and commit to zero deforestation in the rainforest by 2015”, says ...