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As the Leaders’ Climate Summit approaches, the Biden administration should consider every available option to promote effective conservation and sustainable development in the Amazon.

Logging company moves into intact Gabon forest as village fights to save it by Benjamin Evine-Binet on 31 March 2021 Transport Bois Négoce International (TBNI), a Chinese forestry company, has built new roads in preparation to cut timber in a concession which includes a previously unlogged forest in northeastern Gabon. Residents of the village of Massaha, on the northern edge of this forest, have been managing hunting and other use of this forest since 2019; they formally requested reclassifi...

Big dream: NGO leads in creating 1,615-mile Amazon-Cerrado river greenbelt by Jenny Gonzales on 17 February 2021 The Black Jaguar Foundation plans to reforest 1 million hectares (2.4 million acres) along Brazil’s Araguaia and Tocantins rivers in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes. The 2,600 kilometer (1,615 mile) long natural corridor will require the planting of around 1.7 billion trees. Tens-of-thousands have already been planted. This natural corridor will be established on private lands, and ...

Mongabay | 3 February 2021 by Caio de Freitas Paes (Translated by Roberto Cataldo) In the far west of Brazil’s Bahia state, sprawling soybean plantations extend from the edges of the highways right up to the horizon. The region is considered Brazil’s new grain frontier, its roads bustling with trucks hauling agrochemicals, cattle, and tons of soybeans. The 2019-2020 harvest was the second best in the history of Bahia: more than 6 million tons of soybeans were produced in the state. That ...

Trader Cargill, pension fund TIAA linked to land grabs in Brazil’s Cerrado Global commodities giant Cargill continues to buy soybeans from a farm in Brazil that cultivates on illegally acquired and deforested land. The Parceiro farm in Bahia state, owned by SLC Agrícola, has been implicated in a $200 million land-grabbing scheme being investigated by Brazilian authorities. Also implicated in the case is the U.S. teachers’ pension fund TIAA, an investor in one of the parcels of illegally ac...

When speaking about climate change, it is necessary to differentiate between two types of response in policymaking. On the one hand, climate change demands a reorganization of societies and international relations as well as shifts in energy, production, and consumption systems. These fundamental transformations are ushered through by transition policies. On the other hand, even if societies managed to transition tomorrow, past greenhouse gas emissions have locked the world into climate-related...

Why is the Amazon still at risk despite ‘zero deforestation’ commitments? Commodity-driven deforestation was the largest cause of tree cover loss in Brazil with 1.84 million hectares lost in 2020. Afp / Carl de Souza Many multinational companies including Swiss-based commodity firms have pledged to distance themselves from clear felling in the Amazon. A loophole in regulations and monitoring is jeopardising their best intentions.   This content was published on January 27, 2021 - 0...

Director of Environmental Protection Agency summoned to Prosecutor Generals Office AKIPRESS.COM - Director of the State Environmental Protection and Forestry Agency Dinara Kutmanova did not show up for the meeting of parliament committee on agricultural policy, water resources and environment... To Read the Full Story

Brazil elections boost environmental violators to high office in Amazon Fifty-one of the candidates were sitting office holders, 28 of whom ran for reelection. Many of these candidates are former illegal loggers and ranchers, and continue to hold a stake in agribusiness companies operating on deforested land. In addition to the environmental violations, some of the candidates are implicated in other serious crimes, including one accused of using slave labor on his farm, and another who owns a r...

Lack of protection leaves Spain-size swath of Brazilian Amazon up for grabs by Jenny Gonzales on 8 January 2021 Fifty million hectares (124 million acres) of undesignated forest in the Brazilian Amazon, an area the size of Spain, is under growing threat of illegal occupation and deforestation facilitated by a controversial government land registry. A Greenpeace Brazil study shows 62% of undesignated forest along a stretch of the BR-163 Highway has been illegally invaded and then registered by ...