Native vegetation, in general, covers 64 percent of Brazil's territory, according to the 2022 MapBiomas mapping. Of this total, most corresponds to forests (58%).

Still, environmental protections there remain the most robust in Brazil. Rainforest farmers are required by law to preserve 80 percent of native vegetation on their plots.

Researchers have concluded that, by 2023, Brazil had only kept 64.5 percent of its native vegetation, apart from water surfaces and non-vegetated natural areas, like beaches and dunes, which add ...

The second smallest biome in Brazil, with an area larger than only the Pantanal, the Pampas has lost 30% of its native vegetation in the past three and a half decades. The rural regions are the most ...

The affected native vegetation corresponds to 1.3 times the size of the deforested area. According to the study, only 7% of fires that started in deforested areas remained within their boundaries.

Brazil’s government on Monday began removing thousands of non-Indigenous people from two native territories in a move that will affect thousands who live in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged to a record high for the month of July in almost two decades, government data showed on Thursday, amid a drought in the region ...

The Brazilian Congress is analyzing a bill that would leave all the country’s non-forestry vegetation unprotected, affecting an area twice the size of the United Kingdom. Behind the proposal are ...

In the Black Summer of 2019–20 alone, 103,400 square kilometres of habitat went up in flames. The irony is, laws to protect native vegetation did nothing to prevent this destruction.