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Brazilian Amazon hit by worst deforestation rate in a decade
06.12.2018 Between August 2017 and July 2018, 7,900 square kilometres of native forest were lost mostly to illegal logging and agricultural expansion
Comment: Bolsonaro has pledged to strip environmental protections. The EU can make those decisions hurt
06.12.2018 The Brazil president-elect's destructive impulses must be reined in, and EU policymakers must be galvanized into action, writes Fern's Nicole Polsterer
Brazil in Focus: What does Bolsonaro mean for ‘bad ag’ and the forests?
06.12.2018 With an aggressive agribusiness lobby tapped into the political establishment, the picture for the forests of Brazil is looking bleak
One of Brazil’s most important river basins under pressure from illegal cattle ranching, soy plantations and mining
31.10.2018 Increasing levels of deforestation in the Xingu river basin in states of Pará and Mato Grosso connected to cattle ranching, soy plantations and gold mining
Illegal deforestation in northern Argentina continues despite Environment Ministry’s intervention
31.10.2018 Greenpeace has once again detected illegal forest clearing in Argentina’s northern province of Salta, one of the most deforested in the country
