Jenny Gonzales

Jenny Gonzales

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Jenny Gonzales is a Brazilian journalist based in São Paulo. Formerly contributor at the sustainability & companies section of Valor Econômico newspaper, business assistant editor of Carta Capital magazine, correspondent for Brazilian publications and editor of Time magazine's Portuguese supplement in New York.

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Forest management ambitions in Brazilian Amazon aim to make up for lost time

Jenny Gonzales 12 Mar 2025

Brazil’s big push for tropical forest funding gets support for 2025 debut

Jenny Gonzales 23 Dec 2024
Illegal mining in the Munduruku Indigenous Territory in 2020. Image by Marizilda Cruppe/Amazônia Real/Amazon Watch.

Brazil sets a date to remove illegal miners from Munduruku land, more details await

Jenny Gonzales 6 Nov 2024
Fishers from the community of Iguaiba, in the Alcântara Quilombo.

Delays in land titling threaten the conservation success of quilombos in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 15 Oct 2024
Located in the Amapá state, the second-largest red angelim ever found is 85.4 meters (280 feet) tall and has a circumference of 9.8 meters (32 feet). Image courtesy of João de Matos Filho / Prodemac.

Experts aim to protect one of Brazil’s giant emblematic tree species

Jenny Gonzales 18 Jun 2024

How to reward tropical forest conservation: Interview with Tasso Azevedo

Jenny Gonzales 22 Mar 2024
At least 228 freshwater dolphins have died in lakes connected to rivers, possibly killed by excess heat.

Detailed NASA analysis finds Earth and Amazon in deep climate trouble

Jenny Gonzales 21 Dec 2023
Maria Bernadete Pacífico was the leader of Pitanga of Palmares quilombo, located in Bahia state. Image courtesy of CONAQ.

Son of slain Quilombola leader will still strive for community’s rights

Jenny Gonzales 5 Sep 2023
Ibama seizes a shipment of illegally extracted Ipê

Study confirms surge in deforestation in Indigenous lands under Bolsonaro

Jenny Gonzales 21 Jul 2023
Yanomami Indigenous

Majority of Brazil’s Congress votes to restrict Indigenous land advances

Jenny Gonzales 2 Jun 2023
(Left to right) Minister of State for Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger, Wellington Dias, Minister of State for Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Wafunai, Joênia Pichan, during the 19th edition of Camp Terra Livre (ATL), 2023. Image by Palácio do Planalto (Brazil presidential palace) via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Brazil’s President Lula recognizes six Indigenous lands, and says more to come

Jenny Gonzales 1 May 2023

Indigenous Amazon forests absorb noxious fumes and prevent diseases from wildfires, study suggests

Jenny Gonzales 11 Apr 2023
Since the beginning of the operation, government environmental agents have been destroying the logistical support of illegal mining, such as an airplane, a helicopter and a tractor, and have seized weapons and boats. Image courtesy of IBAMA by Ricardo Campos.

Lula government scrambles to overcome Yanomami crisis, but hurdles remain

Jenny Gonzales 6 Mar 2023

Amazonian countries must act together to reverse rainforest loss, experts say

Jenny Gonzales 7 Feb 2023

Blue jeans: An iconic fashion item that’s costing the planet dearly

Jenny Gonzales 17 Nov 2022
Hyacinth macaws in artificial nest

Habitat loss, climate change send hyacinth macaw reeling back into endangered status

Jenny Gonzales 4 Jul 2022
According to the Forest Code, rural properties located in the Cerrado biome of Mato Grosso state must maintain 35% of their native vegetation.

Brazil bill seeks to redraw Amazon borders in favor of agribusiness

Jenny Gonzales 25 Apr 2022
Piñatex fibers in the drying stage. The pineapple leaf fiber has great tensile strength and flexibility. Image courtesy of Riikka Juva/Ananas Anam.

Sustainable fashion: Biomaterial revolution replacing fur and skins

Jenny Gonzales 8 Apr 2022

Pharmaceutical water pollution detected deep in the Brazilian Amazon

Jenny Gonzales 21 Mar 2022

From Wall Street to the Amazon: Big capital funds mining-driven deforestation

Jenny Gonzales 22 Feb 2022
NASA Landsat satellite image showing the Amazonian region where the activity occurred, according to IBAMA.

Chemical defoliants sprayed on Amazon rainforest to facilitate deforestation in Brazil

Jenny Gonzales 19 Jan 2022

Fashions to die for: The fur trade’s role in spreading zoonotic disease

Jenny Gonzales 15 Sep 2021

Guarani Indigenous men brutalized in Brazilian ‘expansion of violence’

Jenny Gonzales 24 Mar 2021

Big dream: NGO leads in creating 1,615-mile Amazon-Cerrado river greenbelt

Jenny Gonzales 17 Feb 2021

European public roundly rejects Brazil trade deal unless Amazon protected

Jenny Gonzales 16 Feb 2021

Lack of protection leaves Spain-size swath of Brazilian Amazon up for grabs

Jenny Gonzales 8 Jan 2021

As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy

Jenny Gonzales 4 Dec 2020

As fire season ends, Brazil cited for failed Amazon and Pantanal policies

Jenny Gonzales 9 Nov 2020

Brazil moves toward transfer of deforestation and fire monitoring to military

Jenny Gonzales 29 Sep 2020
Hots spots in areas with Prodes warnings indicating deforestation between 2017 and 2019. Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Friday night follies: Brazil cuts deforestation funding, then restores it

Jenny Gonzales 1 Sep 2020

Pioneer study maps regions of Amazon tree flora and may help in future efforts at species conservation

Jenny Gonzales 13 Aug 2020

As Amazon tree loss worsens, political pressure grows, and Brazil hedges: Critics

Jenny Gonzales 10 Aug 2020

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