Presidents and ministers from seven Amazon countries met in Colombia on Friday to agree on measures to protect the world’s biggest rainforest, under threat from wildfires and rampant deforestation.

Brazil’s flagship Amazon rainforest protection program brought in one of the largest single-year funding hauls in its history in 2023, boosting President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ’s push to halt ...

The Amazon rainforest could face a renewed surge in deforestation as powerful farming interests in Brazil – backed by a group of politicians – push to overturn a key pillar of its protection: the Soy ...

Brazil’s antitrust regulator suspended a key mechanism for rainforest protection, the Amazon Soy Moratorium, on Aug. 18, less than three months before the nation hosts the COP30 climate summit. The ...

ADM, Bunge, Cargill, Cofco signed 2006 agreement to protect Brazil's Amazon forest with soy farming moratorium Mato Grosso law strips tax incentives from conservation program participants Emboldened ...

Ecuador is scoping out new debt-for-nature swaps, one to funnel funds into the Amazon rainforest and another for a giant ocean protection zone backed by Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio, people ...