Jonathan Watts
Global Environment Writer at The Guardian
Amazon-based author of The Many Lives of James Lovelock. Global environment writer @Guardian. Founder @Sumaumajornal & @Amazon_RJF. Mostly on BlueSky 🦋
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts |Chris Watson |Lucy Swan
Brazil is the biggest exporter of beef in the world, and more than 40% of its vast 240m-cattle herd is raised in the Amazon region. As a result, swathes of the nature-rich rainforest are being cleared and burned to create pasture. This is pushing Amazon destruction close to a point of no return, prompting environmentalists and consumer groups to demand deforestation-free meat products.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts |Lucy Swan |Harvey Symons
Yellowstone in Montana may have the most romanticised cowboy culture in the world thanks to the TV drama series of the same name starring Kevin Costner. But the true home of the 21st-century cowboy is about 7,500 miles south, in what used to be the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, where the reality of raising cattle and producing beef is better characterised by depression, market pressure and vexed efforts to prevent the destruction of the land and its people.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts |Lucy Swan |Paul Scruton
The world’s largest meat company, JBS, looks set to break its Amazon rainforest protection promises again, according to frontline workers. Beef production is the primary driver of deforestation, as trees are cleared to raise cattle, and scientists warn this is pushing the Amazon close to a tipping point that would accelerate its shift from a carbon sink into a carbon emitter.
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1 week ago |
msn.com | Jonathan Watts |Naira Hofmeister |Daniel Camargos |Lucy Jordan |Paul Scruton |Lucy Swan
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Dec 31, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts
The fate of one of the world’s most threatened primates will be on the line in the coming months when Brazilian authorities decide whether to incorporate the pied tamarin into the urban planning policies of Manaus. Conservationists say the inclusion is crucial not just to protect the critically endangered monkey but as an indicator of the Amazonian city’s willingness to create green spaces that will benefit the lives of its people.
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