'My dream is to buy a piece of land': the 'outsiders' farming at the Amazon's last frontiers | Brazil
Struggling to compete with large-scale landowners, smallholder farmers move ever deeper into Brazil’s disappearing forest
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Struggling to compete with large-scale landowners, smallholder farmers move ever deeper into Brazil’s disappearing forest
As infrastructure projects and soy plantations pump up land values in the Brazilian Amazon, smallholders are selling up and moving to more distant frontiers, perpetuating a cycle of displacement and deforestation.
The illegal tin mine was so remote that, for three years, the massive gash it cut into the Amazon rainforest had gone largely ignored.
The infant mortality rate among the 31,000 Yanomamis in Brazil now exceeds those of war-torn and famine-stricken countries, with one in 10 infants dying, government data says
An explosion of illegal mining in this vast swath of the Amazon has created a humanitarian crisis for the Yanomami people