Mongabay investigative reporter Fernanda Wenzel tells us all about her reporting on the Amazon’s land war.
She went to one of the most dangerous spots in the rainforest, a place where a battle between land grabbers, settlers and landless families are driving deforestation and claiming many lives.
In 2024 alone, Brazil registered more than 1,700 land conflicts — the highest number in a decade. Most of them took place in the Amazon.