"The concessions will last 35 years and aim to transform environmental restoration into a business model." Government rolls ...

The eight-mile stretch of new highway has gouged a deep gash through a large swath of Amazon rainforest just in time for ...

Lula made those remarks at the 52nd Assembly of Indigenous Peoples of Roraima. It was the first time a president has participated in the indigenous assembly where nine ethnic groups convene.

Brazilian environmental campaigner and tribal leader Raoni Metuktire is pitting himself against the government to stop plans ...

The president ... It was important for Lula to rebuild the institutions for environmental and Amazon protection, and he has done so with considerable success: The rate of rainforest clearing ...

The environment ministry said that efforts by inspectors were important in bringing about the fall, President Lula had promised to restore the Amazon rainforest when he was trying to get elected ...

Despite presiding over a major cut-down of Amazon deforestation, Brazil's left-wing president ... the crucial rainforest and biodiversity hotspot Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ...

For fourteen years the countries which contain the Amazon rainforest have been struggling to protect it. The last time the Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva hosted a meeting of the ...