As the sun rises over the Amazonian island of Marajo, Renato Cordeiro laces up his boots, grabs his knife, and heads out to tap his rubber trees. Drop by drop, he collects the milky white sap, known ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — The removal of hundreds of cattle raised illegally on public land designated for sustainable forest use in Brazil’s Amazon has sparked protests and divided residents, with some ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — Luzineide Marques da Silva knows the location of each of the 748 rubber trees scattered in her area of the Brazilian Amazon, where she and her family hold rights to tap the trees ...

Rubber tapper Raimundo Mendes de Barros prepares to leave his home, surrounded by rainforest, for an errand in the Brazilian Amazon city of Xapuri. He slides his long, scarred, 77-year-old feet into a ...

Hundreds of rubber tappers marched through Belem on Thursday as the city hosts the U.N. climate talks. They called for an end to deforestation and more support to protect the forest that sustains ...

Deep in Amazonia, Raimundo Pereira expertly cuts a gash in a rubber tree to collect white sap destined for the nearby factory at Xapuri, the world’s only producer of contraceptives made from tropical ...

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Renato Cordeiro, 57, harvests rubber from a hevea tree (Hevea brasiliensis) near his home – Copyright AFP Pablo PORCIUNCULA As the sun rises over the Amazonian ...

However, a recent revival of the rubber tapper trade in the impoverished northern region of Brazil has brought new hope to the area. As the sun rises over the Amazonian island of Marajo, Renato ...