A Brazilian state in the Amazon ignored the advice of its own environmental legal team and revoked a fine against JBS NV, the ...

JBS, the world's largest meat company, has indirectly bought cattle raised illegally on indigenous land in Brazil, according to a Greenpeace investigation released on Thursday. The animals allegedly b ...

(Bloomberg) -- Brazil is pressing ahead with plans to track its cattle herds as the world’s largest beef producer contends with international pressure to prevent deforestation caused by commodity ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s environmental agency has levied $64 million in fines against 23 meatpacking companies and their suppliers for buying and selling cattle raised illegally on deforested ...

BRASILIA, Brazil -- The removal of hundreds of cattle raised illegally on public land designated for sustainable forest use in Brazil's Amazon has sparked protests and divided residents, with some ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Slaughterhouses that agreed to a settlement with Brazilian prosecutors were far more likely to obey environmental laws banning the purchase of cattle from illegally deforested ...

XINGUARA, Brazil -Decades of ranching in the Amazon have earned Roque Quagliato, Brazil’s “King of Cattle,” great wealth – and some trouble. His family's immense farms were accused of submitting ...

NOVA XAVANTINA, Brazil (Reuters) - Farmers like Endrigo Dalcin are so keen to plant Brazil's biggest-ever soybean crop that they are tearing down the fences around once-sacred territory: pastures that ...