Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Wednesday highlighting the devastation caused by illegal cattle ranching in the Brazilian rainforest, and especially its impact on Indigenous peoples in the ...

Agribusiness accounts for roughly a fifth of Brazil’s economy and about 40% of exports. While it is a major economic engine, it is also responsible for over 90% of deforestation and about a quarter of ...

Tainted Beef, Hides, from the Amazon May Have Been Exported to the EU Illegal cattle ranching has devastated territories of small land holders and Indigenous peoples in the Amazon region that will ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Spurred by a yearlong investigation by Mongabay, a federal crackdown has removed up to 2,000 illegal cattle from Brazil’s Arariboia Indigenous ...

Tropical rainforests represent one of our planet’s most critical natural assets in the fight against climate change, storing approximately 25% of all terrestrial carbon despite covering just 6% of ...

Brazil's labor prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against meatpacking giant JBS, accusing it of buying cattle from farms where ...

A report from environmental nonprofit Earthsight claims that leather hides sold to luxury fashion brands can be traced back to illegal cattle ranching and deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. In a ...