The National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform of Brazil created the Green Settlements, to restrain illegal deforestation in areas of land reform in the Amazon.
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Bolivia.com: TIPNIS, Amboró and Carrasco are the protected areas most affected by deforestation
Deforestation in the national protected areas in Bolivia caused a loss of 49,884 hectares of forest between 2000 and 2010, reveals a study by Friends of Nature Foundation
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Deforestation: historical fall and retention of numbers in October
Just over the COP18, the Ministry of Environment of Brazil reports the lowest rate in the history of the Amazonbut retains publication of possible bad data.
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Unique program to leave oil beneath Amazonian paradise raises $300 million
The Yasuni-ITT Initiative has raised 8 percent of the total amount needed to fully fund the idea.
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Who gains with Vale?
Legal actions in Brazil and Switzerland want to impose limits on tax exemptions to mining company, the country still looking model to stop exporting jobs.
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Pig-iron: value subtracted
Learn more about the industries that would bring development to the Amazon, but eventually associated with illegal deforestation and slave labor generation.
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Dirty of carbon
In Açailândia, state of Maranhão, Pública follows the rescue of young people explored in coal plants. “They see this as slave labor, we did not even know.”
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Why Vale was voted the worst company in the world?
In the same year that celebrated its 70th anniversary, the mining company also received an unwanted prize, proposed by social movements of the Amazon.
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Inside the forest, Vale is in a hurry
With the exploitation of the untouched Sierra Sur on Carajás National Forest, Vale expands its activities in the Amazon and promises to double the production in four years.