Brazil

Raiara Azevêdo de Barros was born in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, in the municipality of Xapuri, in the Brazilian state of Acre. She is the daughter of rubber tapper and environmental activist...

A Northern Irish native, Steven Grattan has been based in Colombia since 2013. He founded the English-language newspaper The Bogota Post that same year and taught journalism at Bogota's Universidad...

With a degree in public administration from FGV-SP, a business administration school in São Paulo, Brazil, Thaís Espinosa Alonso had her first encounter with Rondônia, Brazil, through a research...

Tulasi Resende is a psychologist and freelance photographer from Rondônia, Brazil. She is an Indigenous activist who has worked for social movements across Latin America and Brazil. Since 2019, she...

Bitate Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau lives in the Jamari Village, on the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau Indigenous Land, in Rondônia, Brazil. He is the coordinator of the Jupaú Association and participated in the second Young...

Samela Sateré-Mawé, 24, is the daughter of the leader Sonia da Silva Vilacio, of the Sateré-Mawé people, from the Andirá-Marau Indigenous Land, in the lower Amazon River. She is a biology student at...

Paulina Chamorro is a journalist with more than two decades of experience covering socio-environmental topics in Brazil. Chamorro is dedicated to telling stories about nature and people, across...

Lalo de Almeida has worked as a photographer for Folha de S.Paulo for 25 years. He has been working on documentary projects such as The Man and the Land, concerning traditional populations and their...

Ionova is a multimedia journalist based in Brazil, where she focuses on human rights, the environment, and politics. She often reports on deforestation and fires in the Amazon. Her work has appeared...

Laís Duarte works as a reporter for the oldest and most awarded environmental and sustainability program in the country, Repórter Eco. She covers environmental projects, traditional communities...

Erinaldo Clemente has worked in television since 1998. He began his career as a cameraman at TV Gazeta. He has worked as a camera assistant at TV Cultura for 13 years. In award-winning reports...