South America

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Deep Water Brazil

For decades, the Cerrado’s dry mesas have been deforested and converted into pool-table-flat fields...

Daniel Grossman
Southeast Asia RJF Advisory Committee Member

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PART OF: The Fight to Keep the Forest Standing

Technology Helps Uru-eu-wau-wau Peoples Monitor Land Invasions (Portuguese)

Laís Duarte
Amazon RJF Grantee

November 19, 2021
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Solutions to an Ongoing Predation Story

The confluence of an economic and humanitarian crisis due to Covid–19 has reversed fragile gains in...

Susana Lay
Amazon RJF Grantee

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PART OF: The Brazilian Amazon Is Up for Grabs. Who Profits?

How Americans’ Appetite for Leather in Luxury SUVs Worsens Amazon Deforestation

Manuela Andreoni
Rainforest Investigations Fellow

November 17, 2021
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PART OF: Brazil Nut, the Gold of the Standing Forest

For the Zoró People, Brazil Nut Gathering is an Ally in the Fight Against Deforestation (Portuguese)

Multiple Authors

November 17, 2021
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PART OF: Deep Water Brazil

Water War: Is Big Agriculture Killing Brazil’s Traditional Farms?

Daniel Grossman
Southeast Asia RJF Advisory Committee Member

November 17, 2021
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PART OF: Threats to Indigenous Communities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Risk of Extermination: Pandemic and Bolsonaro Government Threaten Isolated Indigenous People (Portuguese)

Mariana Della Barba
Amazon RJF Grantee

November 16, 2021
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PART OF: Inside Guyana’s Struggle To Avoid the Resource Curse

With Oil Boom, Guyana Walks a Tightrope on Growth and Climate

Chris Arsenault
Grantee

November 15, 2021
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PART OF: The World They Inherit

Where Will the Next Pandemic Begin? The Amazon Rainforest Offers Troubling Clues

Multiple Authors

November 15, 2021
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PART OF: The Dispute Over Water in the Land of the Tristes Trópicos (Portuguese)

Pantanal: Brazil’s Last Great Wildlife Refuge has an Uncertain Future (Portuguese)

Juliana Arini
Amazon RJF Grantee

November 12, 2021
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PART OF: Femicidal Cops: Argentine Women say, 'Basta!'

Deadly System Errors: Deaths of Úrsula and Bárbara Could have been Prevented

Multiple Authors

November 12, 2021
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PART OF: The Sugarcane Siege on Tacana Indigenous Territory

Sugarcane Devours Tacana Indigenous Territory (Spanish)

Multiple Authors

November 8, 2021