Protesters Target Cargill at One of the Company’s Major Amazonian Ports

Inside Climate News · By Georgina Gustin · last updated January 31, 2026 – 12:02 AM

Environmental and Indigenous groups accuse the American grain-trading company and other agribusiness giants of advocating for projects they believe will destroy Amazonian rivers and the rainforest.

By Georgina Gustin

As new threats emerge against the Amazon, Indigenous and environmental groups are taking aim at Cargill, the Minnesota-based grain-trading giant they see as the greatest foe of the planet’s most climate-critical rainforest.

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