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Environmental crime slows climate action, deters investment in nature-based solutions, and undermines the green transition. Around the world, land grabbing, illegal deforestation, illicit mining, poaching and a rash of other crimes are ravaging tropical forests, eroding biodiversity, and reversing sustainable development. Despite growing awareness of the problem, an ecosystem of criminality persists in most major biomes, from the Amazon Basin to […]

Brazilian banks link credit for Amazonian meatpackers to traceability by 2025, backed by the similar proposal from the powerful Agriculture and Livestock Confederation.

This article was produced as part of a China Environment Forum and Ohio State University Cultivating U.S. and Chinese Climate Leadership on Food and

PORTO VELHO, Brazil — Cruising north in a speedboat along the Madeira River, the signs of Brazil’s illegal gold mining boom are everywhere: mounds of sand extracted from the riverbed sit along the banks, and dozens of smoking dredging rafts operate at full steam. Mongabay reported from the region in November 2022, a few weeks […]

Coordinated raids by police in Brazil have shed new light on the workings of the illegal mining industry in the Amazon. Federal police carried out three simultaneous raids against the mining company Gana Gold in July on suspicion that it operated a criminal scheme to “launder” gold mined from protected areas and Indigenous lands in […]

French intelligence has revealed a disturbing rise in power of the far-right conspiracy movement QAnon in the French-speaking world,

Home Brazil’s plan to thwart ‘cattle laundering’ Brazil’s plan to thwart ‘cattle laundering’ Digital platform aims to clean up beef trade by reporting animals reared on farms linked to illegal deforestation World Economy News 30 Jun 2021 • 4 min read Rogue ranchers in the Brazilian Amazon often shuttle cows between farms to conceal the fact they have been reared on illegally cleared land — a practice known as “cattle launderi...