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Country’s top cop said 90% of miners despoiling Yanomami land had been expelled, though experts say they are only displaced

The decrease began in January after far-right President Jair Bolsonaro left office and leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in.

Royal commission particularly scathing of Scott Morrison and Stuart Robert and the top public servant in charge of the scheme

The rate of deforestation since Lula Ignacio de Silva was sworn in as Brazil's president has dropped by 34%. Protecting the Amazon had been one of his campaign promises.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest dropped 33.6% in the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, providing an encouraging sign for his administration's environmental efforts

Can ranchers help rescue the Amazon?

When asked to situate the world’s most iconic rainforest on a map, most people will pinpoint Brazil. And given the intense media coverage of the country’s deforestation and fires – concerns reached a peak under former president Jair Bolsonaro and his free-for-all approach – they might also imagine a thick…

Researchers find humans compromise nearly 90% of the dolphins' swim routes

Endangered Amazon River dolphins face extinction threat from fishing and dam construction