When Carlos Cabral was killed this month, it seemed history was repeating itself in a corner of the Amazon known for violence. But the real story was more disturbing
Government backtracks under pressure from mayor of host city, who is a political friend of president Jair Bolsonaro
After backing out of hosting the 2019 UN climate summit, the Bolsonaro administration has changed its plan to hold a week-long event in Salvador
Congress is blocking Brazil’s leader from expanding farming on indigenous lands, now he is making alliances with some traditional landowners
At a special event in London, CHN’s Amazon correspondent Fabiano Maisonnave speaks to Karl Mathiesen about the challenges facing the world’s most important rainforest
The $2,500 fine launched a seven year vendetta against José Olímpio Augusto Morelli and the agency that protects the Amazon, from the man who now runs the country
Joênia Wapichana helped to win land titles for five indigenous groups in Brazil’s far north, but the president is threatening to re-open the area to white farmers and miners
Ricardo de Aquino Salles, a close ally of farming interests, was named as minister on Sunday, he said the conversation about global warming was ‘secondary’
Loss of forest cover jumped almost 50% during the election campaign, in anticipation of looser environmental regulations
Presidential favourite would abolish Brazil’s environment ministry, exposing world’s largest rainforest and its indigenous owners to criminal gangs of loggers and miners
The $1 trillion investor is raising deforestation concerns with a number of beef companies but not the Amazon’s biggest cattle buyer, despite evidence against it
Dodgy credits allow exporters to ship the valuable timber overseas, to unsuspecting consumers who are unaware the timber may be illegal
At the head of a poisoned river, the Munduruku find a devastated land where their village once stood. Can they stop the illegal mining that stole their homes?
In Mato Grosso, logging permits are issued that allow export to European markets, even to those charged with crimes by federal authorities
With indigenous land demarcations frozen across Brazil, illegal mining and hydro dams threaten the Amazon. Communities are taking matters into their own hands
The rich are ‘renegotiating’ the Paris climate deal by trying to limit access for middle income countries to climate finance, it has been claimed
As climate talks head into their final hours, a disagreement over how rich countries will report their plans to finance climate action could boil over
Often persecuted, indigenous people have now been accepted into the climate process and a space made for their voices to be heard
Local politicians are colluding with gangs to undermine rainforest protection, Luciano Evaristo tells delegates at UN climate talks in Bonn
Chief negotiator Paul Oquist is lined up to be the next developing country co-chair of the Green Climate Fund, prompting a rethink on UN deal, say diplomats