#Amazônia

Official portrait of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, released by the Palácio do Planalto in 2023.

Lula calls for US$1.3 trillion a year at COP31 and says rich nations developed at the planet's expense

Satellite view of the Amazon basin in Brazil, showing the Amazon River and the Purus, Madeira and Tapajós tributaries, captured by the MODIS sensor on 23 July 2026.

Norway pledges 600 million kroner to the Amazon Fund after Brazil posts its lowest deforestation rate on record

Women of the Kayapó people during a national gathering of indigenous peoples, in 2021.

Illegal gold mining

Brazilian police destroy three excavators and 19 huts at illegal gold mine inside Kayapó Indigenous Land

Satellite image of the merged urban area of Tabatinga, in Brazil's Amazonas state, and Leticia, in Colombia, in 2018.

Public security

Brazil sends federal security force to the Amazon border with Colombia for 90 days

Land cleared for crops or cattle near Porto Velho, in the state of Rondônia, in August 2020. Land-use change still accounts for 39% of Brazil's gross emissions.

Brazil's net greenhouse gas emissions fell 9% in 2025, landing 85 million tonnes above its climate target

Land cleared and prepared for cattle or monoculture near Porto Velho, in Rondônia, in August 2020.

Amazon deforestation falls 41.8% to 3,335 sq km, the lowest in the series that began in 1988

An area of forest felled and burned in the rural zone of Apuí, in Amazonas state, in August 2020.

Farming covers 30.5% of the land ringing the Amazon's protected areas, and has grown 561% there in 41 years

An area of felled and burned forest in the municipality of Apuí, in Amazonas state, in a photograph from August 2020.

Amazonas records 1,380 fire hotspots in ten days as Brazil recognises emergency in 36 municipalities