So what can we do to help? On a global scale, governments can introduce regulations that slow down and eventually stop deforestation. For example, Costa Rica has introduced a ‘no deforestation ...

Roads in the Amazon, for example, were built by the Brazilian government for agriculture; today the region is a breadbasket for commodity crops and livestock, so deforestation is high. In the ...

Mongabay went to Pará state’s southwest and found examples of people struggling to keep sustainable initiatives in a region dominated by soy, cattle, gold and logging.