Romi Castagnino

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Romi Castagnino is a video journalist, filmmaker, and conservation biologist based in Peru. Her main interests include tropical ecology and investigations on the wildlife trade.

Follow her work on Instagram at @romicastagnino.wild

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How are koalas doing in the aftermath of the Australian fires? Q&A with Cheyne Flanagan

Romi Castagnino 17 Mar 2020

What is a spectacled bear? Candid Animal Cam takes us to the Andes

Romina Castagnino 10 Mar 2020

Mongabay’s new show: Candid Animal Cam

Romina Castagnino 3 Mar 2020

Latam Eco Review: Hunger for wildlife, mercury rising, and a black jaguar sighting

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2018

Latam Eco Review: Turtles at risk, jungle fracking, and a mafia land grab

Mongabay.com 10 Aug 2018

Videos: spectacled bear’s home in the dry forests of Peru revealed

Yvette Sierra Praeli 26 Jul 2018

Musicians and Indigenous communities join to fight illegal logging in Peru

Yvette Sierra Praeli 21 Dec 2017

Peru: Illegal mining devastates forests in Amazonas Region

Vanessa Romo 28 Nov 2017

Peru: the man who overcomes fear to defend the forest

Jack Lo Lau 27 Nov 2017

Peru: The river that will not flow

Jack Lo Lau 22 Nov 2017

Nicaraguan beef raised illegally in biological reserve mostly exported

Duyerling Ríos y Cristopher Mendoza 14 Sep 2017

Extensive illegal cattle ranching destroys core area of Nicaragua’s Indio Maíz Biological Reserve

Duyerling Ríos and Cristopher Mendoza 28 Aug 2017

Panama: the ranching industry has moved into Darién National Park

José Arcia 26 Jun 2017

Illegal logging and hunting threaten Yasuní isolated indigenous groups

Daniela Aguilar 22 Jun 2017

Guatemala provides an example of community forest management for Indonesia

Carolina Gamazo 12 Jun 2017
A cow in Colombia's Valle de Cocora National Park. Photo by Tim Snell via Flickr.

One cow per hectare: deforestation in Colombia after FARC’s exit

Esteban Montaño 6 Jun 2017

The resistance of Peruvian coffee

Jack Lo Lau 30 May 2017

Peruvian Supreme Court acquits Máxima Acuña in case brought by mining company Yanacocha

Milton López Tarabochia 8 May 2017

A foreseen environmental disaster in Colombia?

María Lourdes Zimmermann 20 Apr 2017

Cattle ranching threatens core of Biosphere Reserve of Southeast Nicaragua

Wilder Pérez R. 27 Mar 2017

Shuar people ask for their president’s freedom amid mining dispute

Daniela Aguilar 14 Mar 2017

Cattle ranching devours Nicaragua’s Bosawás Biosphere Reserve

Michelle Carrere 10 Mar 2017

In Ecuador, progress stalls on mining dispute between government and indigenous Shuar people

Daniela Aguilar 8 Mar 2017

Court dismisses Ecuadorian government bid to shut down environmental NGO

Daniela Aguilar 26 Jan 2017

Conflict erupts between Chinese mining company, government and indigenous communities in Ecuador

Daniela Aguilar 26 Jan 2017

What do experts have to say about Latin American wildlife trafficking?

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo 23 Dec 2016

Wildlife for sale: More than 5,000 traffickers arrested this year in Colombia

María Lourdes Zimmermann 21 Dec 2016

Wildlife for sale: Jaguars are the new trafficking victims in Bolivia

Miriam Telma Jemio 20 Dec 2016

Wildlife for sale: Is it possible to win the fight in Ecuador?

Isabel Riofrio 16 Dec 2016

Wildlife for sale: An illegal activity out of control in Peru?

Dan Collyns 14 Dec 2016

Wildlife for sale: affected species and trade routes in Peru

Milton López Tarabochia 12 Dec 2016

Peruvian Melka group palm oil production company withdraws from RSPO

Milton López Tarabochia 22 Nov 2016

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