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March 24, 2020 | Vanity Fair
Massacre in the Amazon
Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rainforest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.
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Brazil
March 23, 2020 | El Pais
Conquering El Dorado: Why Bolsonaro is Winning in the Wild Amazon Jungle (Spanish)
The Brazilians who migrated to the Amazon to exploit its richness of resources, spurred on by Bolsonaro, don't realize they're being accused of environmental crimes.
March 10, 2020 | Here & There
China, Brazil, and the Pursuit for Pork
From Mato Grosso to Pará, how rural Brazil provides one of the food commodities China needs most.
March 10, 2020 | a.lente
The Amazon's Invisible War (Portuguese)
Rubber tappers and Indigenous people resist the advance of forest devastation.
March 06, 2020 | UN Dispatch
How China’s Demand for Soybeans is Fueling the Destruction of the Amazon Rainforest
A story with immense explanatory power touching on geopolitics, the rise of China and the power of Chinese consumers—and of course, climate change.
February 25, 2020 | The Washington Post
How Bolsonaro’s Risky Bet on China in the Amazon Could Backfire
Like so many politicians, campaign rhetoric switches once leaders take office and face the realities of doing business with China. But Bolsonaro has bet big on China — and that's risky business.
February 21, 2020 | The Intercept
Video: Chinese Business (Portuguese)
Flávio Dino is displacing the poor to benefit the Chinese.
February 21, 2020 | PRI's The World
Chinese Development in the Amazon
Last year, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached the highest rate in more than a decade. One of the biggest drivers of deforestation in the region is the growing of soybeans for livestock feed. The World's host Marco Werman speaks to reporter and Pulitzer Center Grantee Melissa Chan about her reporting in Brazil on Chinese interests in the Amazon.
February 18, 2020 | The Intercept
Chinese Business (Portuguese)
With Flávio Dino's endorsement, Chinese money displaces the poor in Maranhão.
February 17, 2020 | The New Yorker
A Nun's Journey in the Amazon
How do you make a difference in a struggle that may never end?
February 16, 2020 | The Atlantic
China Wants Food. Brazil Pays the Price.
National efforts to strengthen food security have an impact far beyond any single country’s borders.
February 14, 2020 | Piauí
Paving the Amazon (Portuguese)
Bolsonaro inaugurates a new stretch of federal highway and makes plans for another thousand kilometers cutting across protected areas of forest in northern Pará.
Carbon Chronicles
With journalists in Indonesia and Brazil, the stories in this project highlight how tropical forests in Costa Rica, Indonesia, and Amazonia might ameliorate—or, to the contrary, aggravate—climate change. The project also explores the current impacts of climate change on people and wildlife.
Can Catholicism Save The Amazon?
Sister Jean believes that God made us free. With that freedom, we made many terrible choices, like burning down the Amazon. Now, it is not God's job to save us -- that's up to people like Sister Jean.
Maranhão à Venda | Maranhão for Sale
How Flávio Dino's administration has violated the environmental rights of traditional communities in favor of commodity exploration and extraction with Chinese capital.
Roosevelt River: Life in the Most Dangerous Region of the Amazon
An expedition to Resex Guariba Roosevelt, in Mato Grosso, through the Brazilian Amazon wildness, to show life inside the most dangerous region of the Amazon.
Life in Traditional Amazonian Communities Surrounded by Soy Fields
The aim of this project is to make a portrait of how life looks like in Amazonian traditional communities surrounded by soy fields.
High Stakes: China in the Amazon
As the world's largest consumer of soy, China's hunger drives Brazil's sales. How the Amazon fits into China's food security policy and Belt and Road Initiative—and what that means for the world.
River Missionaries: The Catholic Counteroffensive in the Amazon
Catholic missionaries first arrived in the Amazon five centuries ago. Who are they and what are they doing now?
Rainforest Defenders Series: Achuar Territory, Ecuador
Three Rainforest Defender Series stories of resistance and innovation in the Achuar Territory of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Fire on the Triple Frontier of the Amazon
This project analyzes how the fire in the Amazon rainforest impacted the triple frontier between Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru.
Amazon on Fire
By land and air, a photo essay that shows fire in the heart of the Amazon.
Austerity and the End of Social Programs Accelerate Amazon Deforestation
How do the end of programs such as Bolsa Verde, along with the austerity of the Michel Temer and Jair Bolsonaro governments, affect riverside communities and accelerate deforestation in the Amazon?
Bolsonaro's Plan for the Brazilian Amazon
Bolsonaro plans to build a road and a hydroelectric dam in Calha Norte do Pará, the most preserved area of the Brazilian Amazon, the largest corridor of tropical forest in the world.
December 14, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Sam Eaton
Environmental journalist Sam Eaton discusses his deep dive reporting trip along Brazil’s violent “arc of deforestation” to explore the crucial question: Can we save the Amazon, so it can help save us?
December 05, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Frederick Bernas and Rayan Hindi
Meet Frederick Bernas and Rayan Hindi, who discuss the challenges of producing a documentary about a ballet program in Rio de Janeiro's Alemão favela.
August 13, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Jill Langlois and Lianne Milton
Journalist Jill Langlois and photographer Lianne Milton, reporting on Alcaçuz Federal Penitentiary in Brazil, introduce us to two women whose husbands survived a massacre in the prison.
April 21, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Rhitu Chatterjee
Journalist Rhitu Chatterjee discusses her reporting on the school meal programs in Brazil and India.
June 18, 2015 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Heather Pringle
Pulitzer Center grantees Heather Pringle and Andrew Lawler traveled to the Amazon to report on isolated indigenous peoples' recent emergence from the forests.
July 28, 2014 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Matthew Niederhauser
Matthew Niederhauser introduces his Real World Cup project, produced in collaboration with The New Republic and Pulitzer Center.
September 22, 2011 | Meet the Journalist
Meet Fred de Sam Lazaro
Fred de Sam Lazaro explains the source of declining birth rate in Brazil and how it could enhance women’s role in the society—a topic of his project “Brazil: Girl Power.”
March 04, 2020 | Awards
Vox 'Supertrees' Project Wins Scripps Howard Award
The winners of the 67th Scripps Howard Awards represent among the best of journalism from 2019.
February 07, 2020 | Awards
Vox 'Supertrees' Series Nominated for ASME Ellie Award
The Pulitzer Center-supported series on supertrees around the world was chosen as a finalist for the 2020 Ellie Award for Feature Design.
September 12, 2019 | General news
Director Frederick Bernas on Filming in the Favela
Bernas' lifelong connection to music and the arts drew him to the story of the favela ballerinas.
July 26, 2019 | General news
Eliane Brum: Why the Amazon Is the Center of the World
We have to decolonize ourselves: Eliane Brum, a Brazilian member of the Amazon Advisory Committee, addressing the first convening of the Rainforest Journalism Fund (RJF).
July 22, 2019 | General news
First Rainforest Journalism Fund Conference Meets in Manaus, Brazil
Pulitzer Center founder and Executive Director Jon Sawyer reflects on the Rainforest Journalism Fund's first convening, which brought together 80 journalists who have reported from across the Amazon basin.
May 22, 2019 | Project news
Successful Crowdfunding Campaign for Favela Dance School Featured in Pulitzer Center Documentary
Grantee Frederick Bernas helped the subject of his Pulitzer Center-funded documentary raise money to build a dance school in a Brazilian favela.
May 15, 2019 | Project news
The New Yorker Cites Rainforest Journalism Fund Project
Spearheaded by a coalition of Latin American journalists, the project helped shape the backdrop for a New Yorker piece on a court victory for an Ecuadorian indigenous group.
October 02, 2018 | General news, Project news
Sam Eaton Discusses the Amazon's Carbon Tipping Point with Boston Public Radio
Sam Eaton sat down with Boston Public Radio to discuss his ongoing series on the Amazon rainforest.
August 23, 2017 | Education news
More Students Connect with Pulitzer Center Journalists via Skype
The Pulitzer Center partners with Skype in the Classroom to facilitate engaging virtual conversations with professional journalists in classrooms across the U.S. and beyond.
May 23, 2017 | General news
Brazilian Journalists Invited to Apply for 4-Day "Reporting Land Rights" Course
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Thomson Reuters Foundation announce a special opportunity for Brazilian journalists.
March 17, 2017 | General news
Last Week to Submit Photos of Strong Women to NatGeo Your Shot
This is the last week to submit photos of Strong Women to NatGeo Your Shot.
May 30, 2016 | General news, Education news
Pulitzer Center 2016 Student Fellows Announced
2016 fellows report on a range of complex issues from around the world—from global health and perceptions of identity to environmental degradation and innovation.
January 29, 2020 | Elementary, Middle School
Exploring Youth Activism Against Plastic Pollution in the Amazon
Students explore reporting on Indigenous youth activism in the Amazon, analyze the causes of plastic pollution, and consider how they can make a difference in reducing waste in their own communities.
January 29, 2020 | Elementary, Middle School
Lesson Plan: Exploring Youth Activism Against Plastic Pollution in the Amazon
January 29, 2020 | Elementary, Middle School
Lesson Plan: Exploring Youth Activism Against Plastic Pollution in the Amazon
January 29, 2020 | Elementary, Middle School
Lesson Plan: Exploring Youth Activism Against Plastic Pollution in the Amazon
August 21, 2019 | All Grades
Back to School: Catching up with the World
At the start of the school year, students might want to discuss global issues that arose over the summer. This lesson is intended to spark discussion on current events and ways to keep up with them.
August 01, 2019 | Elementary
Finding a Common Thread: How Young People Spend Free Time Around the World
This activity aims to help students make connections with their counterparts around the world by exploring what young people in different countries do in their free time.
December 19, 2018 | Middle School, High School
Documenting Stories of Resilience: Ballet in Brazil’s Favelas
This lesson explores how film is used to tell the stories of young ballerinas in Brazil’s favelas, resulting in art and/or research projects examining resilience.
October 31, 2018 | Middle School, High School, College
Research and Debate: The Battle Over Land in the Brazilian Amazon
Students evaluate two broadcast stories on the battle for land in the Brazilian Amazon in order to craft arguments about how they think land in the Amazon should be used.
September 26, 2016 | All Grades
Jewell: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented from The Pulitzer Center.
June 17, 2016 | All Grades
Funston: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
March 23, 2016 | Middle School, High School
Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's 'Guernica'
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
February 10, 2016 | All Grades
Analyzing School Lunch Programs in Brazil and India
This lesson asks students to compare their own school lunch programs to programs in Brazil and India using digital resources and reporting by journalist-grantees Rhitu Chatterjee and Mathilde Dratwa.