Brazilian law allows some legal deforestation on private land designated for economic use, such as cattle ranching and soy production. In the Amazon Rainforest, landowners can clear up to 20% of their ...

Will the Amazon’s climate return to normal ... These tactics allow land grabbers to clear vast tracts of rainforest for ...

They’re curious about us, and we’re curious about them.” That’s how Daniel Cangussu describes the recent interaction with a ...

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 ...

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.

Numerous environmentalists have said the blazes were likely set by cattle ranchers and farmers in ... re suspecting is going on down there.” Amazon Rainforest Fires Threaten Climate Change ...

Fires have been raging at a record rate in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest for weeks ... Accident’ Several environmentalists have said cattle ranchers and farmers intentionally set the fires ...

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 ...

Extensive cattle ranching along with clearing land to sell timber or grow soy are driving deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.JBS and more than a dozen other major agriculture companies have ...