
Articles by Clarissa Beretz
Clarissa is a highly skilled and motivated Brazilian journalist with extensive experience in journalistic environmental investigations. In the course of her work with organizations such as World Water Forum, Greenpeace, Trip Editora, Natura and IDESAM (Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Amazônia), Envolverde and De Olho nos Ruralistas, she writes about illegal deforestation, social and environmental impacts of hydroelectrical damns in Amazon, indigenous rights and water pollution. Having worked in the Brazilian media industry for many years, Clarissa developed excellent relationships with indigenous leaders, riverside communities, rural people, politicians and a broad range of important contacts and sources to understand the Brazilian conflicts and current Environmental challenges.


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Forest trackers
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- Smallholder agriculture cuts into key Sumatran tiger habitat
- Indigenous Cacataibo of Peru threatened by land grabbing and drug trade
- Colombian and Ecuadorian Indigenous communities live in fear as drug traffickers invade

Oceans
- When seas turn rough, gleaning keeps the fish on the table for some communities
- As Bahamas offshore project falls flat, oil driller island-hops across Caribbean
- For marine life, human noise pollution brings ‘death by a thousand cuts’
- This Mediterranean seagrass filters plastic waste — but it’s also under threat

Amazon conservation
- We’re killing those tropical trees we’re counting on to absorb carbon dioxide
- As Amazon forest-to-savanna tipping point looms, solutions remain elusive
- Big dream: NGO leads in creating 1,615-mile Amazon-Cerrado river greenbelt
- European public roundly rejects Brazil trade deal unless Amazon protected

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
