Rubens Valente

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Rubens Valente is an award-winning investigative journalist based in Brasília, Brazil. He has written for Folha de S.Paulo, O Globo, Intercept Brazil, Agência Pública, UOL and others. He is the author of Operação banqueiro and Os Fuzis e as Flechas.

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Illegal miners adapt their strategies in Yanomami Amazon territory

Rubens Valente 17 Jun 2026

A fisherman is silhouetted as he casts his net into the Tapajos River in Santarem, Para state, 2020.

Concern among Indigenous leaders, relief for a few, as Amazon Soy Moratorium falters

Rubens Valente 3 Mar 2026

A frontline view of the fight against illegal mining in Yanomami territory

Rubens Valente, Agência Pública 2 May 2023

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

A collage featuring Ashoka Mukpo, a Mongabay reporter, and a cocoa bean

Dave Johnson. Photo from the Global Owl Project

A young cacao tree in Grand Gedeh, Liberia. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

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