PORTO VELHO, Brazil — Brazilian environmental agents seized the equivalent of more than 5,000 truckloads of timber in an operation targeting one of the most heavily logged regions of the Amazon ...

Interpol and partners have launched a global law enforcement effort to fight illegal deforestation in tropical areas.

A rifle resting on his shoulder, Tatji Arara looks despondent as he steps over the trunks of huge trees felled by timber traffickers in the heart of Brazil's Amazon rainforest, now the scene of ...

Police launched raids across Brazil on Thursday targeting environmental protection officials and companies allegedly involved in illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest. An indigenous man from the ...

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -After journeying for weeks from a glacier in the Andes to Brazil’s tropical coast, a boat carrying ...

Brazilian police with support from Interpol have destroyed 277 dredges used in illegal gold mining along the Madeira River in ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Arara indigenous chief Tatji Arara (L), 41, patrols his ancestral lands in northern Brazil ...