
Articles by Alicia Prager and Flávia Milhorance
Alicia Prager is a freelance journalist and worked for various Austrian as well as international media outlets. She studied Journalism, Politics and International Development in Vienna, Aarhus, Sydney and Amsterdam and is currently contributing to Mongabay from the State of Bahia in Brazil, covering the impact of the expansion of agribusiness in the Cerrado.
Flávia Milhorance is a Brazilian independent journalist based in Rio de Janeiro. With ten years of experience as a reporter and editor, she won or was nominated for nine journalism awards. Flávia holds an MA in Journalism, Media and Globalization from an Erasmus joint program with City University of London (UK), Aarhus University and the Danish School of Journalism (Denmark). She has worked for BBC Brazil and TMT Finance, in London; The Intercept Brazil, O Globo, Band News, EBC (Brazilian state media) and Projeto Colabora, in Rio de Janeiro.


Cerrado: Agribusiness boomtown; profits for a few, hardships for many

Cerrado: Traditional communities accuse agribusiness of ‘green land grabbing’

Cerrado: Agribusiness may be killing Brazil’s ‘birthplace of waters’

Cerrado: can the empire of soy coexist with savannah conservation?

Cerrado: appreciation grows for Brazil’s savannah, even as it vanishes
Special series
Forest Trackers
- Bolivian national park hit hard by forest fires in 2022, satellite data show
- Deforestation ‘out of control’ in reserve in Brazil’s cattle capital
- In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve
- Gold mining invades remote protected area in Ecuador

Oceans
- Good fisheries management, if enforced, can help sharks and rays recover
- An El Niño is forecast for 2023. How much coral will bleach this time?
- Thai government turns its sights on illegal coral trade
- Mongabay Explains: What’s the difference between artisanal and industrial fishing?

Amazon Conservation
- Joenia Wapichana: ‘I want to see the Yanomami and Raposa Serra do Sol territories free of invasions’
- JBS is accused of misleading investors with suspicious green bonds
- Sonia Guajajara: Turnaround from jail threats to Minister of Indigenous Peoples
- From Japan to Brazil: Reforesting the Amazon with the Miyawaki method

Land rights and extractives
- Tense neighbors: Chinese quarry in Cameroon takes a toll on locals
- FOIA lawsuit suggests Indonesian nickel miners lack environmental licenses
- Shadows of oil in Peru: Shipibo people denounce damage, contamination left by company
- In Liberia, a gold boom leads to unregulated mining and ailing rivers

Endangered Environmentalists
- ‘We lost the biggest ally’: Nelly Marubo on her friend Bruno Pereira’s legacy
- Murders of 2 Pataxó leaders prompt Ministry of Indigenous Peoples to launch crisis office
- Worries and whispers in Vietnam’s NGO community after activist’s sentencing
- Scientists call for end to violence against Amazon communities, environmental defenders

Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- Pioneer agroforester Ermi, 73, rolls back the years in Indonesia’s Gorontalo
- After 20 years and thousands of trees planted, Kalimantan’s veteran forester persists
- Aziil Anwar, Indonesian coral-based mangrove grower, dies at 64
- A utopia of clean air and wet peat amid Sumatra’s forest fire ‘hell’

Conservation Effectiveness
- Biodiversity, human rights safeguards crucial to nature-based solutions: Critics
- Protecting canids from planet-wide threats offers ecological opportunities
- Mangrove forest loss is slowing toward a halt, new report shows
- ‘South Asia needs its own tiger plan’: Q&A with Nepal’s Maheshwar Dhakal

Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Tunnel collapse at dam project in orangutan habitat claims yet another life
- Sulawesi nickel plant coats nearby homes in toxic dust
- Indonesia’s grand EV plans hinge on a ‘green’ industrial park that likely isn’t
- Java communities rally as clock ticks on cleanup of ‘world’s dirtiest river’
