Brazil soy industry’s exit from moratorium on using Amazon land could spur deforestation

Brazil’s biggest soy producers have withdrawn from the soy moratorium, a pledge to avoid Amazon deforestation. This move ...
Yahoo

Potassium mining project in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest divides Indigenous tribe

LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that has ...
Human Rights Watch

Brazil: Protect Small-Scale Farmers’ Land Rights in the Amazon

(São Paulo) – Brazil’s agrarian federal agency should reject a proposal to downsize a sustainable settlement in a deforested area of the Amazon region, Human Rights Watch said today. If approved, the ...
Mongabay

Heading into COP, Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate is falling. What about fires?

Brazil’s official data show deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the 12 months to July 2025, with independent monitoring by Imazon confirming a similar trend—evidence that policies under President ...