Leather from cattle raised in deforested areas and on Indigenous land in the northern Brazilian state of Para is being turned into luxury items in Italy, according to an investigation.Designer brands ...

Leather from cattle raised in deforested areas and on Indigenous land in the northern Brazilian state of Para is being turned into luxury items in Italy, according to an investigation.

Some areas recover over time, while others eventually collapse. Brazil’s monitoring system classifies an area as deforested when it loses more than 70% of its original vegetation.

FILE - The Trans-Amazon Highway crosses a deforested area near Humaita Amazonas state, Brazil, July 10, 2023. Andre Penner - AP ...

In Brazil’s Cerrado, 20 million hectares of native vegetation were affected by fires that started in deforested areas between 2003 and 2020 — an area equivalent to more than 24 million soccer ...

Countrywide, the deforested area shrank 32.4 percent, with alerts plunging 26.9 percent. A total of 1,242,079 hectares were deforested in 2024, with 60,983 alerts registered.

Brazil's Amazon state of Rondonia has passed a law in favor of cattle ranchers who converted a large area of rainforest inside the Jaci-Parana conservation zone and turned it into pasture.

In Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, about 90% of the deforested area has been converted to cropland within five years of forest loss. While this cropland expansion has allowed for individual ...

Multinational grains traders operating in Brazil are seeking to weaken an agreement that forbids buying soybeans from farms on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest, environmental advocates ...

A new study shows that 215 million hectares (531 million acres) of degraded and deforested land in the tropics could regenerate naturally. The researchers developed a model based on satellite ...

This aerial view shows a deforested and burning area of the Amazon rainforest in Autazes, Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept. 22, 2023.

Aerial view of a deforested area of the Amazonia rainforest in the surroundings of the BR-319 highway at the city of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, on September 15, 2022.