Articles by Hyury Potter
Hyury Potter is a freelance reporter who writes about corruption and the environment from Brazil. He wrote articles for The Intercept, DW Brazil, BBC Brazil, and InfoAmazonia. A graduate of the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), he has worked at the Deutsche Welle newsroom in Bonn and at newspapers in the states of Santa Catarina and Pará, in Brazil. He is the author of the Mined Amazon project, supported in 2020 by the Amazon Rainforest Journalism Fund and the Pulitzer Center. In 2019 the project won a Journalism Innovation Grant awarded by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and The Wall Street Journal. Hyury Potter é repórter freelancer com foco em corrupção, meio ambiente e análise de dados. Tem textos publicados em The Intercept Brasil, DW Brasil, BBC Brasil e InfoAmazonia. Formado pela Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), tem passagens pela redação da Deutsche Welle, em Bonn (Alemanha), e por jornais de Santa Catarina e do Pará. É autor do projeto Amazônia Minada, financiado em 2020 pelo Amazon Rainforest Journalism Fund e Pulitzer Center. Em 2019, o projeto recebeu uma bolsa de inovação em jornalismo concedida pelo International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) em parceria com o The Wall Street Journal.
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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
- No protection from bottom trawling for seamount chain in northern Pacific
- Annual ocean conference raises $11.3b in pledges for marine conservation
- Caribbean startups are turning excess seaweed into an agroecology solution
- Global coral bleaching now underway looks set to be largest on record
Amazon Conservation
- Amid record-high fires across the Amazon, Brazil loses primary forests
- A web of front people conceals environmental offenders in the Amazon
- Brazil boosts protection of Amazon mangroves with new reserves in Pará state
- Cross-border Indigenous efforts in Peru & Brazil aim to protect isolated groups
Land rights and extractives
- Hyundai ends aluminum deal with Adaro Minerals following K-pop protest
- Brazil’s illegal gold trade takes a hammering, but persists underground
- Maluku bone collector unearths troubling consequence of coastal abrasion
- New FPIC guide designed to help protect Indigenous rights as mineral mining booms
Endangered Environmentalists
- Indonesian activists face jail over FB posts flagging damage to marine park
- 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’
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