Ana Ionova

Ana Ionova

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Ana Ionova is a freelance multimedia journalist covering the environment, human rights and politics in Brazil. Her work has been published by Reuters, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera and others. She has previously worked in Argentina, the Balkans and the Middle East.

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With the advance of agriculture in Maranhão, rain cycles have been disrupted and rivers and streams have begun drying. Some of the state’s only remaining rainforest lies within a group of Indigenous lands here, home to the Guarani people. Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

In the Brazilian Amazon, seedlings offer hope for drying rivers

Ana Ionova 30 Aug 2024
The Kaapori capuchin, (Cebus kaapori), one of the world’s most critically endangered primates. Image by Ricardo Ferreira Esteves via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0).

In Brazil’s Amazon, land invasions — and fires — threaten a protected reserve

Ana Ionova 5 Aug 2024

In Brazil’s soy belt, community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon

Ana Ionova 15 Feb 2024

In Brazil’s Amazon, a clandestine road threatens a pristine reserve

Ana Ionova 24 Nov 2023

‘We just want to be left in peace’: In Brazil’s Amazon, soy ambitions loom over Indigenous land

Ana Ionova 9 Nov 2023
Hawks fly along BR230 in the iTerêrim Marmelos Indigenous Territory in Amazonas. Image by Bruno Kelly/Amazonia Real via Wikimedia Commons (CC 2.0).

In Brazil’s Amazon, a ‘new agricultural frontier’ threatens protected lands

Ana Ionova 27 Jul 2023
Cows in Terra do Meio Ecological Station.

In Brazil, criminals dismantle one of the best-preserved swaths of the Amazon

Ana Ionova 23 Feb 2023
Triunfo do Xingu, a sustainable development reserve in the Brazilian state of Pará, has in recent years become the epicenter of the forest destruction gripping the Amazon Rainforest. Cattle ranching is responsible for much of the destruction, but wildcat mining and land grabbing are fast advancing too. Across the reserve, toppled trees, open-pit mines and charred jungle are a common sight. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

Deforestation ‘out of control’ in reserve in Brazil’s cattle capital

Ana Ionova 11 Jan 2023

In Brazil’s Amazon, land grabbers scramble to claim disputed Indigenous reserve

Ana Ionova 29 Dec 2022
Reginaldo Oliveira.

In Brazil’s agricultural heartland, rivers run dry as monoculture advances

Ana Ionova 14 Dec 2022
A group of Guarani-Kaiowá residents dance and chant.

In Brazil’s soy belt, Indigenous people face attacks over land rights

Ana Ionova 8 Nov 2022
An SOS Pantanal firefighter battles a blaze. Image by Gustavo Figueiroa/SOS Pantanal.

In Brazil’s Pantanal, early flames signal a ‘new normal’

Ana Ionova 15 Aug 2022
Residents of the Mura Indigenous village of Murutinga, in Brazil’s Amazonas state, take over a boat belonging to employees of the electricity company, who have come to cut off the community's energy supplies. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

Push for potash mine in Brazil’s Amazon looms over Indigenous people

Ana Ionova 27 May 2022
A mural depicting Indigenous faces stretches across a wall in the historic center of Manaus, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

History on the walls: Graffiti brings Manaus’s Indigenous roots to light

Ana Ionova 19 Apr 2022

In Brazil, evicted Indigenous residents fight to reclaim their community

Ana Ionova 1 Mar 2022

In the Brazilian Amazon, solar energy brings light — and new opportunities

Ana Ionova 4 Jan 2022
An official from Operation Green Brazil surveys a deforested and burned landscape. Image by Ibama via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

‘Rampant forest destruction’ wracks reserve as cattle ranching advances in Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 29 Dec 2021

Slashed forest protections ignites land grabbing frenzy in Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 22 Dec 2021
Souza Dias Alvez, of the Mura Indigenous people, looks over the destruction left behind by invaders who cleared a swath of rainforest in the São Pedro Indigenous Reserve in Autazes, Amazonas. The region is seeing a surge in deforestation that is now encroaching on Indigenous lands, as buffalo ranchers turn more land into pasture. Mongabay by Ana Ionova.

Indigenous lands under siege as buffalo frenzy grips the Amazon

Ana Ionova 5 Nov 2021
Image by Valdir Hobus via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation sweeps national park in Brazil as land speculators advance

Ana Ionova 10 Sep 2021

As illegal logging route in Peru nears Brazil, Indigenous groups warn of calamity

Ana Ionova 9 Sep 2021

With their land on the line, Indigenous Brazilians gather for landmark ruling

Ana Ionova 27 Aug 2021

Indigenous Brazilians fear surge in violence as ‘land-grab bill’ nears passage

Ana Ionova 11 Aug 2021
Image courtesy of Fernanda Meirelles, Idesam/ Observatório BR-319.

Illegal deforestation intensifies along Brazilian highway as agribusiness hopes swell

Ana Ionova 23 Jul 2021

As soy frenzy grips Brazil, deforestation closes in on Indigenous lands

Ana Ionova 21 Jul 2021

With Indigenous rights at stake in Brasília, a territory is attacked in Paraty

Ana Ionova 18 Jun 2021

Illegal miners block Indigenous leaders headed to protests in Brazil’s capital

Ana Ionova 14 Jun 2021

Illegal miners fire shots, burn homes in Munduruku Indigenous Reserve

Ana Ionova 28 May 2021

Brazilian Cerrado savanna: Wildcat miners descend on Indigenous reserve

Ana Ionova 16 Apr 2021

Landmark decision: Brazil Supreme Court sides with Indigenous land rights

Ana Ionova 13 Apr 2021

New palm oil frontier sparks scramble for land in the Brazilian Amazon

Ana Ionova 12 Apr 2021
Satellite imagery shows fires spreading across Pantanal Matogrossense National Park in early November 2020.

‘Devastating’ fires engulf Brazilian Pantanal wetlands – again

Ana Ionova 23 Dec 2020

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