
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.


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

Cerrado: appreciation grows for Brazil’s savannah, even as it vanishes
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Forest trackers
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- Colombian and Ecuadorian Indigenous communities live in fear as drug traffickers invade
- Cocaine production driving deforestation into Colombian national park
- Industrial agriculture threatens a wetland oasis in Bolivia

Oceans
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- ‘Tamper with nature, and everyone suffers’: Q&A with ecologist Enric Sala
- New paper highlights spread of organized crime from global fisheries
- Study: Chinese ‘dark fleets’ illegally defying sanctions by fishing in North Korean waters

Amazon conservation
- Indigenous groups blast Amazon state’s plan to legalize wildcat mining
- In ‘dire’ plea, Brazil’s Amazonas state appeals for global COVID assistance
- Brazil’s collapsing health service, new COVID variant, raise Indigenous risk
- Lack of protection leaves Spain-size swath of Brazilian Amazon up for grabs

Land rights and extractives
- Indigenous groups blast Amazon state’s plan to legalize wildcat mining
- Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil
- Protesters hold back military takeover of Balkans’ largest mountain pasture
- Podcast: New innovations to clean up the impacts of mining

Endangered environmentalists
- Brazilian woman threatened by Amazon loggers wins global human rights award
- Indonesian fishers opposed to dredging project hit by ‘criminalization’ bid
- Life as an Amazon activist: ‘I don’t want to be the next Dorothy Stang’
- In Philippines’ Palawan, top cop linked to assault on environmental officer

Indonesias forest guardians
- Why I stand for my tribe’s forest: It gives us food, culture, and life (commentary)
- Reforesting a village in Indonesia, one batch of gourmet beans at a time
- Restoring Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem, one small farm at a time
- Indigenous Iban community defends rainforests, but awaits lands rights recognition
