Men work in a gold mine in Peixoto de Azevedo in northern Mato Grosso, which is one of the largest gold producing areas in Brazil. Part of the extraction activity is illegal and even those legalised d...

IBAMA's (Brazil's environmental protection agency) headquarters in Humaita, which was set on fire in 2017 by miners after an agency operation to combat illegal gold mining on the Madeira River, and wh...

A forest tractor hauls a log in the Jamari National Forest.

An area deforested by land grabbers in the Trincheira Bacaja Indigenous Land. President Bolsonaro's speeches denigrating indigenous populations acted as a stimulus for invaders of indigenous lands. In...

A tractor, almost hidden by undergrowth, used in illegal timber operations inside the Jamari National Forest which was confiscated by the Chico Mendes Institute of Conservation and Biodiversity (ICMBi...

Small patches of rain forest, surrounded by vast agricultural fields, are all that remain after vast swathes of forest have suffered deforestation. Para State is the most deforested of all Brazil's Am...

Indigenous Surui (Paiter) take a break while patrolling the forest in the Seventh of September Indigenous territory.

Jasson Oliveira do Nascimento, resident of the Arapixi Extractive Reserve, cuts the vegetation to make way for the canoe in the stream that leads to the Antimary Extractive Settlement Project, where h...

An area deforested by land grabbers in the Trincheira Bacaja Indigenous Land. President Bolsonaro's speeches denigrating indigenous populations acted as a stimulus for invaders of indigenous lands. In...

A member of the Specialized Inspection Group (GEF) , a part of IBAMA (Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources), Brazil's environmental protection agency, searching for i...

A forest tractor hauls a log in the Jamari National Forest.

A legal logging crew take a rest after cutting down a pequi tree in the Jamari National Forest. The lack of monitoring by environmental agencies and consequent ease of illegal logging, even in protect...

A rifle used by extractivists for hunting and protection is left on a pile of opened Brazil nut husks at the Antimary Extractive Settlement Project. This area is being invaded by land grabbers who are...

Rubber tapper Rian Azevedo de Barros, 18, extracts latex from a rubber tree in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, which was the most threatened and deforested protected area in 2019, according to IM...

An area deforested by land grabbers for cattle pasture in the Trincheira Bacaja Indigenous Land. President Bolsonaro's speeches denigrating indigenous populations acted as a stimulus for invaders of i...