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by Colombian Amazon Investigation Team | October 3, 2026 | Brazil, China, Chancay & Amazon Corridors, Investigation
Investigation of the Business Standard / Reuters article (Reuters · Published by Business Standard, May 9, 2026: “How China’s evolving consumer habits may protect the Amazon rainforest”)Research cutoff: 2 October 2026 | Public-source desk investigation Verdict: There...
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The initiative is documented. Delivered volumes, premium distribution and resulting forest protection remain unverified in our review.
by Colombian Amazon Journal Investigations Desk | Sep 11, 2026 | Brazil, Deforestation, Geopolitics, Illegal Roads and Infrastructure, Indigenous Territories and Rights, Investigation
If BR-230 is the road that opened the Amazon, BR-319 is the road that could finish the job. Scientists call it the “tipping-point road”: the one stretch of highway that would connect Brazil’s southern arc of deforestation to the still-largely-intact...
by Colombian Amazon Journal Investigations Desk | Sep 11, 2026 | China, Chancay & Amazon Corridors, Geopolitics, Gold Mining & Garimpo, Investigation, Mercury Contamination, Mining and Mineral Extraction, Pan-Amazon
Ask “how much do the Chinese help illegal mining in the Amazon,” and the honest answer is not a single number. Chinese actors almost never run the mines and almost never carry the guns. What they do, across the Guianas, Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela, is...
by Colombian Amazon Journal Investigations Desk | Sep 11, 2026 | Brazil, Deforestation, Geopolitics, Illegal Roads and Infrastructure, Indigenous Territories and Rights, Investigation, Trade, Infrastructure & Commodity Signals
Before the Chinese-backed railways and the Chancay megaport, there was a road. The Trans-Amazonian Highway, BR-230, was the original attempt to open the Brazilian Amazon to the outside economy, and more than half a century later it remains the clearest case study of...
by Editorial | Sep 11, 2026 | Analysis, Deforestation, Indigenous Territories and Rights, Mercury Contamination, Mining and Mineral Extraction, Pan-Amazon
You do not live in the Amazon. You may never see it. And its collapse would still reach into your life, through the price of your food, the stability of your climate, and the speed at which the planet you depend on becomes harder to live on. The developments now...
by Colombian Amazon Journal Investigations Desk | Sep 11, 2026 | China, Chancay & Amazon Corridors, Gold Mining & Garimpo, Illegal Roads and Infrastructure, Investigation, Mercury Contamination, Mining and Mineral Extraction, Peru
The Chinese-funded Chancay megaport is not a mine, and it does not cut a road into the rainforest. Its relevance to the Amazon is subtler and, in its way, larger: it changes the speed, volume and opacity with which commodities move between remote extraction zones and...
