Renato Cordeiro, 57, harvests rubber from a hevea tree (Hevea brasiliensis) near his home - Copyright AFP Pablo PORCIUNCULA Renato Cordeiro, 57, harvests rubber from ...

For generations, the rubber tappers of the Amazon have gone about their business in a way that preserves the rain forest. Today, they are... Deep In The Amazon, An Unseen Battle Over The Most Valuable ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — 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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. XAPURI, Brazil (AP) — Rubber tapper Raimundo ...

The recent revival of the rubber tapper trade in this impoverished northern Brazilian region has created jobs for families who once thrived during the Amazonian rubber boom, which collapsed in the ...

XAPURI, Brazil (AP) — 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, ...

In this part of the Amazon rain forest, they call it "the war over wood." It has front lines. One of them is here, in Machadinho d'Oeste in the western Brazilian state of Rondonia. The self-described ...

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 ...