Constance Malleret

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Constance Malleret is a freelance journalist based in Rio de Janeiro. She covers politics, human rights and the environment in Brazil.

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In Brazil, a project paying farmers for forests is looking to scale up

Constance Malleret 1 Jun 2026

AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas

Constance Malleret 24 Apr 2026

In this Aug. 23, 2020 file photo, cattle graze on land recently burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil. The cattle industry in Brazil is a major driver of destruction of the Amazon rainforest, a fact documented by the World Bank and numerous academic studies. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

EUDR is starting to steer company actions, despite slow progress: Report

Constance Malleret 14 Apr 2026

The Kapawi River, soon to be the first “solar river” in the Amazon, is a lifeline for more than 1,000 Indigenous peoples and is home to endangered pink river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis). Image by Andrés Cornejo.

Indigenous governance key to protecting Amazon Basin connectivity, experts say

Constance Malleret 7 Apr 2026

Emergent tree in the Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Climate change drives uneven shifts in tree diversity across Amazon and Andes

Constance Malleret 27 Feb 2026

Representatives from AL-INVEST Verde visit coffee plantations in Minas Gerais.

In Brazil, a free platform uses government data to track EUDR compliance

Constance Malleret 25 Feb 2026

In Brazil, planting forests for carbon credits could help ecosystem restoration

Constance Malleret 23 Jan 2026

Rogério Barros, young extractive leader and son of Raimundão Barros, at the Chico Mendes extractive reserve

Massive Amazon conservation program pledges to put communities first

Constance Malleret 5 Jan 2026

Cattle grazing in the Amazon.

In Brazil, a new label gives more visibility to deforestation-free beef

Constance Malleret 18 Dec 2025

Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo stands next to an oil spill near Shushufindi

These banks fund oil & gas in the Amazon amid climate crisis: Report

Constance Malleret 4 Nov 2025

A deforested area in Barrerias, in Bahia state.

Deforestation for soy continues in Brazilian Cerrado despite EUDR looming

Constance Malleret 17 Oct 2025

Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo with elders and community leaders.

Protecting Indigenous Amazon lands may also protect public health, study says

Constance Malleret 19 Sep 2025

Nina, the jaguar.

Report links meat giant JBS to massive destruction of jaguar habitat

Constance Malleret 22 May 2025

Fires are tearing through the Pantanal, their spread quickened by accumulated biomass. Credit: Gustavo Figueirôa/SOS Pantanal.

Pantanal’s intense blazes stoke fears of another destructive fire season

Constance Malleret 27 Jun 2024

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

Yo Yaj at Songkhla Lake, Thailand

Just over 1,000 mountain gorillas remained in DRC’s Virunga National Park and Bwindi Impenetrable National Park as of 2018. Ebola infection would decimate populations: if just one contracted Ebola, it could “decimate the population,” with less than 20% projected to survive at 100 days post-infection.

Climate Wayfinding with a design background. Image by Amerpsand. Courtesy of Katharine Wilkinson.

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