Reporting from a land war

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.

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