GE Reports

This map shows the extent to which cattle pasture is the main use of deforested land in Mato Grosso. Read more >

This map shows how the main roads that were opened up in the 1970s link with extensive networks of unofficial roads (not shown on official charts), and how this has led to cattle ranching expanding into remote areas hundreds of kilometres from... Read more >

Original vegetation in the state of Mato Grosso. 185,587km² of the once lush rainforest in the state of Mato Grosso (an area twice the size of Hungary) has so far been destroyed, primarily because of cattle expansion. Read more >

Between 1996 and 2006 the area of cattle pastures in the Brazilian Amazon grew by approximately 10 million hectares – an area about the size of Iceland. Read more >