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 ...

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 ...

This pioneering analysis unveils how specific agricultural commodities, from cattle ranching to crops, are driving forest loss at subnational levels throughout the Amazon region. This report combines ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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