Sibélia Zanon

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Journalist, postgraduate in literary journalism. Especially interested in environment and education.

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Handcrafted woodwork helps save an Amazonian reserve, one tree at a time

Sibélia Zanon 5 Feb 2025

Brazilian soy farms and cattle pastures close in on a land where the grass is golden

Sibélia Zanon 4 Feb 2025

New frog species show how geology shapes Amazon’s biodiversity

Sibélia Zanon 19 Dec 2024

DNA testing proves that cocoa originated in the Amazon and reveals robust pre-Columbian trade

Sibélia Zanon 29 Jul 2024

Between Brazil’s Caatinga & Cerrado, communities profit from native fruits

Sibélia Zanon 12 Apr 2024

Riverine communities join forces to preserve threatened Amazon turtles

Julia Lima, Sibélia Zanon 13 Mar 2024

São Paulo nurseries bring the city’s rare and forgotten trees back to life

Sibélia Zanon 17 Oct 2023

In São Paulo’s cityscape, community gardens prompt a new food paradigm

Sibélia Zanon 22 Sep 2023

São Paulo students plant mini-forests on school grounds as urban oases

Sibélia Zanon 18 Jul 2023

Dam-building spree pushes Amazon Basin’s aquatic life closer to extinction

Sibélia Zanon 22 Jun 2023

Climate change makes its presence felt in the Amazon’s shrinking fish

Sibélia Zanon 9 Feb 2023

Harpy eagles: The challenge of protecting the Amazon’s largest bird of prey

Sibélia Zanon 12 Jan 2023

Indigenous cooperative restores forests to form ecological corridor in Bahia

Sibélia Zanon 25 Nov 2022

To save the Amazon, scientists are listening to its rich sounds

Sibélia Zanon 27 Oct 2022

In Brazil’s Ribeira Valley, traditional communities combine farming and conservation

Sibélia Zanon 29 Sep 2022

Natural regeneration and women-led initiatives help drive Atlantic Forest Pact

Sibélia Zanon 11 Jul 2022

Seed banks catalog Brazil’s food past to safeguard its future

Sibélia Zanon 26 May 2022

Amid extinctions, forest corridors aim to save rare birds in Brazil’s northeast

Sibélia Zanon 18 Apr 2022

‘Right moon for fishing’: Study finds gravitational impacts on plants, animals

Sibélia Zanon 22 Mar 2022

From humble roots, a restoration plan in Brazil aims for 1.5m hectares of forest

Sibélia Zanon 4 Mar 2022

Amazonian birds are shrinking in response to climate change, study shows

Sibélia Zanon 2 Dec 2021

You can’t see them to count them, but Amazonian manatees seem to be recovering

Sibélia Zanon 26 Nov 2021

Indigenous Land in the Brazilian Amazon is a brake on deforestation and may start generating carbon credits

Sibélia Zanon 20 Sep 2021

Extinction of Indigenous languages leads to loss of exclusive knowledge about medicinal plants

Sibélia Zanon 20 Sep 2021

Brazil’s biofuel program sputters on weak emissions accounting

Sibélia Zanon 8 Sep 2021

Climate change threatens traditional extractive communities in the Amazon

Sibélia Zanon 30 Aug 2021

Protecting undesignated forests seen as key to slowing Amazon deforestation

Sibélia Zanon 9 Aug 2021

Biogas from animal manure improves life in Brazil’s semi-arid northeast

Sibélia Zanon 19 Jul 2021

Dams drove an Asian dolphin extinct. They could do the same in the Amazon

Sibélia Zanon 21 Apr 2021

Agroforestry-grown coffee gives Amazon farmers a sustainable alternative

Sibélia Zanon 11 Feb 2021

Unprecedented sightings of maned wolves in Amazon herald a changing landscape

Sibélia Zanon 2 Dec 2020

Amazon initiative pays farmers and ranchers to keep the forest standing

Sibélia Zanon 24 Nov 2020

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