By paying a premium for wild rubber, Veja hopes to incentivise producers to keep the forest standing. But money alone doesn’t ...

Rubber tappers forge sustainable future in Amazon As the sun rises over the Amazonian island of Marajo, Renato Cordeiro laces up his boots, grabs his knife, and heads out to tap his rubber trees.

The Chico Mendes Reserve is one of several Amazon extractive reserves where forest communities can practice low-impact ...

Greenpeace Brazil returned to the ancestral waters of the Juruá River - the most curvy river in the world - to spotlight ...

The Amazon rainforest plays a vital role in sustaining life on the planet. Yet, this vast, ... The Amazon is at risk of reaching an irreversible tipping point. An estimated 17% of Amazon forests have ...

The world’s remaining great primary forests, including those in Borneo, the Amazon and the Congo basin, are still threatened ...

After nearly two decades of scraping by through hunting and acai harvesting, he returned to rubber tapping in 2017 to protect what he calls his family heritage — the forest.

2) You can find more types of ant on one tree in the Amazon than you can in some whole countries. 3) 47 million people live in the Amazon, including around 2.2 million Indigenous people, speaking ...