Vanessa Romo

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Journalist and researcher for more than fifteen years. Graduated from the Faculty of Communication Arts and Sciences and from the Master's Degree in Visual Anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). Expert in environmental issues of the Amazon and indigenous peoples. Winner of two honorable mentions in the SIP Awards for Excellence in Journalism 2020 and 2022. Fellow of the Edward Murrow Program for Journalists of the United States Government, finalist of the Fetisov Awards 2022, Gabo Awards 2021 and the National Journalism Award 2018 and 2019. With work recognized by the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN).

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26 stories

The oil debt: More than 6,000 polluted sites fester across Amazonian countries

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo, Yvette Sierra Praeli 11 Aug 2023

Stained by oil: A history of spills and impunity in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia

Alexa Eunoé Vélez Zuazo, Vanessa Romo 23 May 2022

In Latin America, the law is ‘a tool to silence’ environmental defenders

Michelle Carrere, Vanessa Romo 14 Dec 2021

Chile’s marine protected areas aren’t safe from its salmon farms

Michelle Carrere, Vanessa Romo 19 May 2021

Chinese triads target Bolivia’s jaguars in search of ‘American tiger’ parts

Vanessa Romo 2 Mar 2021

Jaguars in Suriname’s protected parks remain vulnerable to poaching

Vanessa Romo 26 Feb 2021

Illegal deforestation rises in South America’s Indigenous territories, parks

Vanessa Romo 29 Dec 2020

In an oil spill’s aftermath in Peru, new voices lead an Indigenous fight for justice

Francesca García Delgado, Vanessa Romo 18 Dec 2020

Bolivia’s jaguar seizures down as suspicions rise over new mafia

Vanessa Romo 15 Sep 2020

Poaching pressure mounts on jaguars, the Americas’ iconic big cat

Vanessa Romo 14 Sep 2020

Using technology, indigenous monitors in the Amazon combat environmental crime

Vanessa Romo 30 Jun 2020

On Peru’s border, the Tikuna tribe takes on illegal coca growers

Alexa Vélez, Vanessa Romo 20 Aug 2019

Fuel trafficking sustains illegal mining in Peru’s Madre de Dios

Vanessa Romo 31 Jul 2019

Peru’s crackdown on coca pushes illegal growers toward protected areas

Vanessa Romo 30 Jul 2019

Peru: Madre de Dios land defenders face trouble whether they report crimes or not

Vanessa Romo 5 Jul 2019

Cocaine blamed for rising deforestation in Peru’s Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Vanessa Romo 30 Dec 2018

Extinction by omission: Peru’s disappearing ancient shihuahuaco trees

Vanessa Romo 28 Nov 2018

Peru seizes plane with 30kg of cocaine in Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Vanessa Romo 25 Oct 2018

How a national reserve stopped the extinction of the Peruvian vicuña

Vanessa Romo 17 Sep 2018

Peru: Marañón dry forests protected as a regional conservation area

Vanessa Romo 20 Jul 2018

Peru: A decade-long quest to protect the world’s largest tropical glacier

Vanessa Romo 17 Jul 2018

Peru: How chocolate saved a community and a protected area from the drug trade

Vanessa Romo 6 Jul 2018

Illegal mining creeps into southern Bahuaja-Sonene National Park

Vanessa Romo 20 Jun 2018

Peru’s Bahuaja-Sonene National Park at risk over illegal mining

Vanessa Romo 19 Jun 2018

In Peru, coca puts one of the world’s best coffee crops at risk

Vanessa Romo 18 Jun 2018

Peru: Illegal mining devastates forests in Amazonas Region

Vanessa Romo 28 Nov 2017

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