The Amazon, Earth's largest rainforest, is under siege. Criminal groups and illegal activities are driving deforestation at an alarming rate. These groups include armed factions, drug traffickers, and illegal miners. They exploit the Amazon's vast and remote areas, often beyond the reach of law enfo
Deep in the Amazon, a group of Indigenous people are on a mission. They are the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard. Their job is to find and stop illegal coca plantations on their land. Coca is used to make cocaine. The Guard uses spears, machetes, and even bows and arrows to protect their home. The Amazon
Chief Raoni, a 93-year-old Indigenous leader, is sounding the alarm about Brazil's infrastructure plans. He believes these projects could harm the Amazon rainforest and the people who call it home. Raoni is in Brazil for the U. N. climate summit, COP30. He wants Indigenous peoples to have more say i
In Brazil, the environment agency Ibama is cracking down on meatpacking companies, including JBS SA, for allegedly buying cattle from farms that have illegally cleared parts of the Amazon rainforest. Ibama has started looking into 12 meatpacking plants, saying they might have been involved in a sche
In a surprising turn, the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso has passed a new law that chisels away at the Soy Moratorium, a deal aimed at curbing Amazon deforestation. This agreement, hatched in 2006 after a Greenpeace investigation linked soy to illegal deforestation, had big companies like Cargill, B
In a surprising move, Brazil's environmental agency has slapped fines totaling $64 million on 23 meatpacking companies. The fines are for buying and selling cattle that were raised on deforested land in the Amazon, an area where raising cattle is a major cause of deforestation. Over 18, 000 cattle w
