A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondônia, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light on the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which some ...

which is the first step to deforestation," said Schmitt, as he stood near a pile of illegal timber his team seized in a rural part of Rondonia's capital, Porto Velho. After valuable timber is ...

began with an operation in a national forest in Rondonia state, near the Bolivian border, Vice President Hamilton Mourao said at a news conference. Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon surged 55% in ...

It comes weeks after President Jair Bolsonaro fired the head of the agency amid rows over its deforestation data ... in the states of Amazonas and Rondonia, more than 2,700km away.