Full Coverage: Brazil

09.11.2009 The only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is having its forest rapidly and illegally bulldozed by ranchers who want their land to graze cattle for beef.

27.10.2009 Kayapó Indians are to hold a protest against a huge hydro-electric dam planned for Brazil’s Xingu River, one of the Amazon’s main tributaries.

19.10.2009 The Akuntsu tribe in the Brazilian Amazon has lost its oldest member, Ururu, leaving the tribe with only five surviving members.

21.08.2009 Containers of waste which were alleged to have been illegally exported from the UK to Brazil last month are due to arrive at the port of Felixstowe today (Friday).

05.08.2009 An environmental group claimed another success in its campaign to save the Amazon when British shoemaker Clarks agreed not to source leather products from Amazon deforestation.

03.06.2009 Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been asked to take decisive action to create new protected areas in the Amazon and Para regions.

01.06.2009 Major fashion, food and sports brand names are unwittingly driving the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, claims a new report.

27.05.2009 A new initiative to re-brand the intensive and damaging farming of soy as 'responsible' is nothing short of "greenwash" and will con the public, a leading environmental group said today.

05.05.2009 A Brazilian cattle-ranching company is seeking permission from Paraguay’s government to destroy forest inhabited by one of the world's last uncontacted tribes, says an organisation that fights for the rights of indigenous peoples.

04.02.2009 A tribe of 300 Amazon nomads is fleeing from bulldozers as their last forest is rapidly destroyed, according to an organisation supporting tribal peoples.

21.11.2008 A Brazilian government official has warned that the last known survivors of an uncontacted Amazon tribe will face genocide unless illegal logging and ranching on their land are stopped.

02.10.2008 Brazil has announced new measures designed to stem an accelerating assault on the Amazon’s rainforests – on the same day as the nation’s space agency released figures showing that the amount of Amazon forest cleared in August was triple the area cleared in August 2007.

03.09.2008 The Observer has admitted that a story accusing Survival of releasing hoax photos of uncontacted Indians was "inaccurate, misleading [and] distorted".

19.08.2008 Brazilian Film Festival, London, 9-15 October, celebrates the nation’s foremost Afro-Brazilian actors and directors, intellectuals and musicians, 120 years on from the abolition of slavery in Brazil.

19.05.2008 The largest indigenous gathering in the Brazilian Amazon in nearly 20 years will take place on May 19-23 to protest against plans for a series of huge hydroelectric dams on the Xingu River.

21.04.2008 Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest may be increasing suggest high-resolution satellite images released by the Brazilian government.

18.04.2008 The UN needs to address women's reproductive rights as it conducts the first "peer reviews" of member countries' human rights records, says a coalition of 11 rights groups from around the world.
From: Center for Reproductive Rights

20.02.2008 In an effort to halt species extinction in the Brazilian Amazon, the state of Para is launching a Zero Extinction Program.
From: Conservation International

14.02.2008 Developing countries are increasingly seeking to maintain social class divisions and 'order' in urban slums by using heavy-handed military tactics, writes Raúl Zibechi.

24.01.2008 The destruction of the Brazil's Amazon rain forest increased drastically in recent months after a two-year "breather," the government reported yesterday.
From Earth Times