South America

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Bolsonaro’s Legacy to Lula: Illegal Mining Infests Indigenous Lands

The infestation of illegal gold mining on Indigenous lands was triggered by Bolsonaro's discourse...

Multiple Authors

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PART OF: 'Not an Inch': Bolsonaro Ignores Obligation To Demarcate Indigenous Lands

Groups With an Interest in Yanomami Piassaba Are Organizing To Exploit the Fiber (Portuguese)

Multiple Authors

May 14, 2023
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PART OF: 'Not an Inch': Bolsonaro Ignores Obligation To Demarcate Indigenous Lands

Yanomami Are Exploited in the Piassaba Extraction Industry with Long Working Days and Accumulated Debt (Portuguese)

Multiple Authors

May 13, 2023
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PART OF: The Big Business of Deforestation

The Human Cost of Going Green

Multiple Authors

May 4, 2023
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PART OF: Exposing Inequalities: How the Health Care System Failed in Venezuela

Inequity by Design: The Case of COVID-19 Vaccination Centers in Venezuela

Multiple Authors

May 3, 2023
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Panará, ‘Giant Indigenous People,’ Monitor Their Land Against Recent Invasions

Covering territorial defence actions on Panará Land. Indians almost extinct in the 1970s, forced to...

Multiple Authors

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PART OF: Brazil, the New Stronghold of the Antivax Movement

Channels of Antivax Doctors Continue To Thrive on Telegram (Portuguese)

Multiple Authors

April 27, 2023
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PART OF: Brazil, the New Stronghold of the Antivax Movement

Audio: The Antivax Network (Portuguese)

Multiple Authors

April 25, 2023
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PART OF: Forest Thieves: Who Profits From Federal Lands?

Professional Services Abound for Amazon Land Grabbers Seeking Legitimacy

Fernanda Wenzel
Rainforest Investigations Fellow

April 25, 2023
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PART OF: Flares From the Amazon in Times of COVID-19

Defending Colombia’s Amazon Is a High-Risk Job – As Our Journalists Know

Multiple Authors

April 21, 2023
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Fortress Conservation in Ucayali, Peru

As the Western protected area model continues to expand around the world, this project documents the...

Blanca Begert
2020 Reporting Fellow

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PART OF: Fortress Conservation in Ucayali, Peru

Peru's Shipibo People Fighting To Reclaim Management of Their Land

Blanca Begert
2020 Reporting Fellow

April 20, 2023