Follow-up investigation
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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 | 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 | 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...
by Colombian Amazon Journal Investigations Desk | Sep 11, 2026 | Analysis, Brazil, China, Chancay & Amazon Corridors, Geopolitics, Indigenous Territories and Rights, Peru, Trade, Infrastructure & Commodity Signals
“China’s Amazonian Railway” is not an official project name. It is the label English-language coverage attaches to a recurring idea: a bi-oceanic railway linking Brazil’s Atlantic-facing rail network to a Pacific port in Peru, across parts of...
