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Boriam Valera has seen his future. It shimmers — and sells for more than $1,100 an ounce.
The tousled 30-year-old works a homemade gold-mining dredge along the banks of the Tambopata River, a tributary of the Amazon, keeping watch over a sluice box...
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Now, he and hundreds of other successful farmers are replanting trees as part of an ambitious initiative to reduce deforestation. Their goal — to set aside...
made popular Nov 23 2009
José Marcolini, a farmer here, has a permit from the Brazilian government to raze 12,500 acres of rain forest this year to create highly profitable new soy...
made popular Aug 24 2009
Brazilian authorities investigating illegal deforestation have accused the suppliers of several UK supermarkets of selling meat linked to massive destruction of the...
made popular Jun 22 2009
Luis Carlos da Silva is helping construct a 10-foot cinder-block wall around Dona Marta, the slum he calls home.
He is paid $90 a week by a contractor hired by the...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Cutting down Amazon forest for cattle and soy does not bring long-term economic progress, researchers say.
A study of 286 Amazon municipalities found that...
made popular Jun 12 2009
Roads pierce the last green heartland of the Amazonian rain forests to make it more accessible even as greedy land grabbers kill the trees at an unprecedented scale....
made popular Jun 15 2007
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