A drone view shows a deforested plot of Brazil's Amazon rainforest in the municipality of Humaita BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's environmental protection agency IBAMA has imposed 365 million reais ($64 ...

XINGUARA, Brazil -Decades of ranching in the Amazon have earned Roque Quagliato, Brazil’s “King of Cattle,” great wealth – and some trouble. His family's immense farms were accused of submitting ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -A settlement involving federal prosecutors and Brazilian meat packers has helped wean much of the country's beef supply chain from links to Amazon rainforest destruction, ...

Amid growing pressure for beef supply chains to be deforestation-free, a new certification system in Brazil will allow ...

The Caatinga is the only biome found exclusively in Brazil and is home to the largest contiguous area of seasonally dry tropical forest in the world. However, anthropogenic activities such as cattle ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Maria Gorete, who just began ranching three years ago, is doing something new with her 76 head of cattle in the Brazilian countryside near the town of Novo Repartimento. She's ...

BRASILIA, Brazil -- The removal of hundreds of cattle raised illegally on public land designated for sustainable forest use in Brazil's Amazon has sparked protests and divided residents, with some ...

A report from environmental nonprofit Earthsight claims that leather hides sold to luxury fashion brands can be traced back to illegal cattle ranching and deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. In a ...

Decades of ranching in the Amazon have earned Roque Quagliato, Brazil's "King of Cattle," great wealth - and some trouble. His family's immense farms were accused of submitting workers to slavery-like ...