Posts Tagged: Brazil

I was recently in Acre in the Brazilian Amazon on a 7-day image-gathering trip. Out there, I caught up with some of the great work being done on the ground there by our Sky Rainforest Rescue partnership and farmer certification scheme. And I survived the whole trip with only a toothbrush. Day 1 – CSI [...]

One of my WWF colleagues has just come back from an amazing trip to the Amazon rainforest, and her story’s well worth a read. Sarah Hutchison is WWF-UK’s forest programme manager for Brazil and she’s just been in the state of Acre, where we’re supporting the development of a sustainable rainforest economy together with Sky. [...]

Last Friday evening I sat and sulked like a kid who’s dropped the summer’s first ice cream in the sand. Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, had announced only a partial veto of the worrying new forest bill we’ve been campaigning against. My immediate reaction was one of defeat – to me, anything other than a full [...]

Today’s guest blogger, on the subject of soya/soy, is Cassio Franco Moreira (PhD Agroecology), who is head of WWF Brazil’s agriculture and environment programme, and represents WWF on the RTRS – Round Table on Responsible Soy. “It’s fair to say I know quite a bit about certification schemes for agriculture. I have a small family-run organic coffee [...]

Update 22 May: sign the urgent petition before Friday! Join the millions asking Brazil’s president to veto the disastrous changes to the forest law! Just a few months ago, Rio de Janeiro seemed the perfect backdrop for the upcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development (aka Rio+20). In the past decade, Brazil has made huge progress [...]