Brazil is intending to auction off swathes of the Amazon rain forest as part of a new method to reduce demand for illegal timber, it has been reported. [more]

A pioneering microchip system has the potential to help protect the Amazon from illegal logging. [more]

Brazil's short-term tax raise on overseas investments in local bonds is likely to have little effect in the medium term, according to a senior credit officer, due to the nation’s current strength as an investment location. [more]

Brazilian market incentives are being credited with shrinking the nation's grey market and establishing it as a leading light in the murky operations of global emerging markets. [more]

Research into the profitability of Brazilian land usage has shown that income from forestry and logging still outstrips that generated by cattle grazing and agriculture. [more]

US private equity firm Blackstone has joined the rush to invest in Brazil by spending US$200 million on a 40 per cent stake in Brazilian private equity firm, Patria Investimentos. [more]

A Danish timber trading company is anticipating making a healthy pre-tax profit from the sale of its valuable Brazilian land and building assets. [more]

The economic policies that have seen Brazil rise to become one of the healthiest economies in the world, are likely to see the party of the President who devised them retain power in a sweeping general election victory in October. [more]

It was announced yesterday that Brazil’s unemployment rate fell to 6.7 percent last month, compared to 8.1 percent in the same period of 2009. [more]

Brazil, China and India have leapfrogged the United States to become the preferred global destinations for investment, a new survey by Bloomberg has shown. [more]