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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 | 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 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...
by Colombian Amazon Journal Investigations Desk | Aug 15, 2026 | Analysis, Brazil, Conservation, Land & Territorial Rights, Resource Extraction
An illegal gold-mining site carved into the Amazon rainforest, 2026. Photograph by CAJ Staff Photographer. A new Brazilian bill aims to accelerate Brazil’s role in the global critical minerals race, but environmental experts warn that the legislation is...
