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
- Bolivia’s El Curichi Las Garzas protected area taken over by land-grabbers
- Authorities struggle to protect Bolivian national park from drug-fueled deforestation
- Poverty and plantations: Nigerian reserve struggles against the odds
- Logging, road construction continue to fuel forest loss in Papua New Guinea
Oceans
- Huge new no-fishing zones give Antarctic marine predators and their prey a break
- Madagascar takes key step toward improving transparency of its fisheries
- Report: Rising slaughter of small whales and dolphins threatens ocean balance
- Stalemate: WTO talks again fail to end overfishing subsidies
Amazon Conservation
- Fanned by El Niño, megafires in Brazil threaten Amazon’s preserved areas
- Brazil’s Amazonian states push for court reforms in bid for justice
- Squeezed-out Amazon smallholders seek new frontiers in Brazil’s Roraima state
- Study points to which Amazon regions could reach tipping point & dry up
Land rights and extractives
- New report details rights abuses in Cambodia’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ project
- Phantom deeds see Borneo islanders lose their land to quartz miners
- Indonesians uprooted by mining industry call for a fairer future amid presidential vote
- Indonesian nickel project harms environment and human rights, report says
Endangered Environmentalists
- Vietnamese environmentalist sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion
- Son of slain Quilombola leader will still strive for community’s rights
- Video: Five Tembé Indigenous activists shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’
- Indigenous activists demand justice after 5 shot in Amazonian ‘palm oil war’
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- Fenced in by Sulawesi national park, Indigenous women make forestry breakout
- In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew
- 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
Conservation Effectiveness
- The conservation sector must communicate better (commentary)
- Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change
- Forest restoration to boost biomass doesn’t have to sacrifice tree diversity
- How scientists and a community are bringing a Bornean river corridor back to life
Southeast Asian infrastructure
- Study: Indonesia’s new capital city threatens stable proboscis monkey population
- Indonesia’s new capital ‘won’t sacrifice the environment’: Q&A with Nusantara’s Myrna Asnawati Safitri
- Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules
- To build its ‘green’ capital city, Indonesia runs a road through a biodiverse forest