Living under the apartheid of Brazil’s soybean capital
Seen from the air, the BR-163 highway cutting through the city that proudly calls itself the National Agribusiness Capital reflects an abrupt socioeconomic divide — as if it were a…
Articles by Luiz Felipe Silva
Special series
Forest Trackers
- Narco activity takes heavy toll on Colombia’s protected forests, satellite data show
- Photos confirm narcotraffickers operating in Peru’s Kakataibo Indigenous Reserve
- Bolivia’s El Curichi Las Garzas protected area taken over by land-grabbers
- Authorities struggle to protect Bolivian national park from drug-fueled deforestation
Oceans
- In northern Spain, climate change is killing shellfish — and women’s livelihoods
- New approach to restore coral reefs on mass scale kicks off in Hawai‘i
- Indonesia’s Avatar sea nomads enact Indigenous rules to protect octopus
- Ghost nets haunt marine life in Malaysian marine park, study finds
Amazon Conservation
- Environmental agents intensify strike amid record fires in Brazil
- Fire bans not effective as the Amazon and Pantanal burn, study says
- Reintroduction project brings golden parakeets back to the skies of Brazil’s Belém
- Indigenous Wai Wai seek markets for Brazil nuts without middlemen
Land rights and extractives
- Critics see payback in Indonesia’s plan to grant mining permits to religious groups
- Impunity and pollution abound in DRC mining along the road to the energy transition
- Women weave a culture of resistance and agroecology in Ecuador’s Intag Valley
- Hyundai ends aluminum deal with Adaro Minerals following K-pop protest
Endangered Environmentalists
- Mongabay video screening at Chile’s Supreme Court expected to help landmark verdict in Brazil
- Indonesian activist freed in hate speech case after flagging illegal shrimp farms
- Final cheetah conservationists freed in Iran, but the big cat’s outlook remains grim
- Indonesian activists face jail over FB posts flagging damage to marine park
Indonesia's Forest Guardians
- On a Borneo mountainside, Indigenous Dayak women hold fire and defend forest
- 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
Conservation Effectiveness
- How effective is the EU’s marquee policy to reduce the illegal timber trade?
- 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
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
