Articles by Jennifer Ann Thomas

Jennifer is a Brazilian journalist with experience in environmental affairs, sustainability and human rights. She has travelled all the regions in Brazil and reported from the different biomes. From the Amazon rainforest, she has covered crimes against wildlife, illegal mining and contemporary slave work. In 2016, she travelled the Doce river after the Samarco dam brake and covered the impacts from the worst socioenvironmental disaster in the country's history. On a regular basis, she reports on government transparency, deforestation rates and public policies. In 2018, she was shortlisted as one of the top 10 sustainability journalists in Brazil.

In Brazil’s Pantanal, a desperate struggle to save a hyacinth macaw refuge from fire

by Jennifer Ann Thomas 17 September 2020

Firefighters are working around the clock to protect a forested ranch in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state that’s an important refuge of the threatened hyacinth macaw. The Pantanal wetlands in which the ranch is located are experiencing severe wildfires, sparked by human activity and exacerbated by drought and climate change.

Deaths of Yanomami babies from COVID-19 bring anguish to mothers

by Jennifer Ann Thomas 3 August 2020

The recent deaths of four Indigenous Yanomami babies and subsequent disappearance of their bodies from a hospital in Brazil have revealed yet another hardship in the way the coronavirus pandemic has impacted Indigenous communities.

Agribusiness harm to Gran Chaco genetic diversity: centuries to heal

by Jennifer Ann Thomas 23 January 2019

Researchers find that the biome, under assault by soy agribusiness, may need 300 to 3,000 years of focused conservation to recover and maintain its genetic diversity.