UK supermarkets implicated in Amazon deforestation supply chain
A report from the UK organization Earthsight finds that UK supermarket chains — including Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons and Lidl — are still importing corned beef from Brazil’s largest beef producer, JBS, despite the company being implicated in a long string of corruption and illegal deforestation scandals over the last decade.Mongabay, 13 June 2019
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Brazil’s environmental protection agency IBAMA has launched its biggest-ever operation to tackle illegal logging that is accelerating Amazon deforestation amid a surge in tree-felling since President Jair Bolsonaro took office.Merco Press , 07 June 2019
Brazil, Timber, Brazil, Illegal logging, Brazilian Amazonia, Bolsonaro, south america Can banks in Beijing stop deforestation in the Amazon?
New report calls for a rethink from financial institutions as deforestation linked to Chinese soy imports increases.Dialogo Chino , 04 June 2019
Brazil, China, Soy, Brazilian Amazonia, Beef, China, deforestation, Brazil, south america New approaches to root out the drivers of illegal logging and deforestation
CIFOR is exploring both avenues through research and engagement, identifying the true drivers of illegal logging and deforestation and working with the people who stand to lose their trees – and their livelihoods.Cifor Annual Report , 01 June 2019
Brazil, Soy, Brazil The Amazon Rain Forest Burns Again
The election of Jair Bolsonaro, a regulation-hating populist with a big following in Brazil’s farm country, was supposed to trigger a surge in deforestation of the Amazon. Five months into his presidency, there are essentially no signs of any such pickup. If anything, the numbers are down.Bloomberg , 30 May 2019
Brazil, Beef, Brazil Brazilian indigenous peoples propose boycott
Coalition of indigenous groups calls for boycott of companies that invade and exploit protected Brazilian lands.Ecologist, 16 May 2019
Brazil, Beef, Brazil Bolsonaro’s plan to unlock the Amazon: split its indigenous peoples
Congress is blocking Brazil’s leader from expanding farming on indigenous lands, now he is making alliances with some traditional landowners.Climate Home News , 13 May 2019
Brazil, Beef, Brazil Fears over rising violence in Amazon as 'forest guardians' battle logging
Following traditional rituals, indigenous chief Olimpio Santos Guajajara paints his face with red dye from urucum seeds as he prepares to go on patrol to protect Brazil’s Amazon rainforestReuters, 13 May 2019
Brazil, Beef, Brazil Corned beef being sourced from company linked to Amazon destruction
Friends of the Earth has traced supermarket corned beef to a meat company accused of violating rainforest-protection laws.Friends of The Earth, 10 May 2019
Brazil, Beef, Brazil Brazil led world in rainforest losses in 2018 despite decline from 2017
Research group says.Fiji Times, 04 May 2019
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