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Illegal Deforestation Monitor
IDM tracks illegalities relating to conversion of forests for export-oriented agribusiness, the largest driver of global deforestation Continue reading
Deforestation connected to illegal cattle ranching, logging and mining accelerates in northern Brazil
25.09.2018 More than 10,000 hectares of forest have been cleared in the states of Pará and Mato Grosso in northern Brazil due to illegal cattle ranching
Global markets help sustain political power of agribusiness lobby in Brazil’s congress
25.09.2018 A damning report by Amazon Watch has shed light on the commercial links between European and US companies and agribusinesses in Brazil connected to illegalities
Cattle ranching driving surge in illegal deforestation in northern Brazil
29.08.2018 Almost 13,000 hectares destroyed in the northern state in May and June, according to conservation NGO Socio-environmental Institute
Beef firm at centre of corruption scandal channelled $1.7bn through tax havens
29.08.2018 The biggest companies involved in trading commodities driving deforestation in Brazil are channeling money through tax havens and inflating profits
Major ag traders fined for buying grain from illegally deforested land in Cerrado
24.07.2018 Cargill and Bunge, along with other traders and farmers fined $29m by Brazilian authorities for buying grain from illegally deforested areas in the Cerrado
Ivy League investment in Brazilian ag mired in allegations of land grabbing and illegal deforestation
29.03.2018 Harvard’s endowment fund invested in a vast farm plagued by allegations of illegal deforestation and violent expulsion of small-scale farmers
Brazil Supreme Court ruling upholds amnesty to illegal deforesters as cash from bad ag flushes into the coffers of congressmen
28.03.2018 STF permits several controversial revisions to the Forest Code that will greenwash illegal deforestation
Communities denounce violence and human rights violations in the Brazilian Cerrado
28.03.2018 Civil society organisations issue statement denouncing the “alarming increase in violence and violations of rights of the communities
