SEATTLE - Recent reports are signaling that Brazil's biggest and best-organized criminal organization known as Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), or First Capital Command, continues to take ...

“If the Amazon rainforest is to avoid the tipping point ... a consultant for Crisis Group in Latin America. “Illegal gold ...

As a result, deforestation linked to garimpos in the Amazon plummeted by 30% compared ... lost 13,000 hectares (32,123 acres) of forest to illegal gold mining in 2023, according to a report ...

Humberto Freire, director of the Federal Police’s recently-created Environment and Amazon ... Rain Forest Conservation and Development issued a joint communique on illegal gold mining and ...

2024 was a brutal year for the Amazon rainforest ... a consultant for Crisis Group in Latin America. “Illegal gold mining is expanding rapidly, driven by soaring global prices, and the revenues ...