Brazil Rainforest

• Brazil to redeploy military to Amazon in effort to curb increased deforestation

  This will mark the third time that President Jair Bolsonaro has dispatched troops to the Amazon, following two "Operation Green Brazil" deployments that ended in April.

  Environment

  Jun 29, 2021
  
• Mapping environmental crime in the Amazon rainforest key preserving it, study suggests

  To track the regional and national networks that drive environmental crime across the Amazon, researchers have teamed up with Interpol, InSight Crime and several other partners,

  Aug 30, 2020
  
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• Brazil deploys military to protect Amazon rainforest

  The armed forces, alongside environmental officials, police and other government agencies, began with an operation in a national forest in Rondonia state, near the Bolivian border.

  World

  May 11, 2020
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• Brazil bans legal land-clearing fires in Amazon rainforest for 60 days

  The period of the new ban coincides with the dry season, when most fires are usually set.

  World

  Aug 29, 2019
• The deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon jumped by 88% last month: research agency

  Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro has called for development of the Amazon rainforest region.

  Environment

  Jul 4, 2019
• Brazil’s new president makes it harder to define indigenous lands

  Brazil's new president, Jair Bolsonaro, has given his agriculture ministry power to decide on lands claimed by indigenous peoples.

  World

  Jan 2, 2019