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Reporter for Mongabay. Words in the Guardian, Al Jazeera, New Scientist, Grist and others.

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Uma investigação da Mongabay mostra como uma lei estadual aprovada a toque de caixa no Pará, somada a uma ofensiva coordenada nas redes sociais, legitimou e incentivou cerca de 500 pessoas a invadirem a Terra Indígena Ituna/Itatá, onde vive um povo indígena isolado.

📲 Entenda a anatomia de uma invasão na reportagem de Aimee Gabay e Elisângela Mendonça. Visite brasil.mongabay.com ou clique no link da bio.

📸 Emilie Languedoc/Mongabay, com imagens cedidas pelo Ministério dos Povos Indígenas (MPI), por Torrinho Torres/Instagram e por Beptemexti Kayapó (1); Fábio Nascimento / Greenpeace (3); Ozeas Santos / AID / Alepa (6); Alepa (8)
#Mongabay #MeioAmbiente #Natureza #Jornalismo #Ecologia #Brasil #Biodiversidade #Conservação #Diversidade #Preservação #Fauna #Flora

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How does a major land grab happen in broad daylight?

In Pará, Brazil, it took just 24 minutes for state lawmakers to unanimously pass a law creating a new state reserve that overlapped entirely with the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Territory, home to an uncontacted group of people. Promoted by politicians as a win for struggling small farmers, a new Mongabay investigation reveals a very different underlying reality.

Data analysis by Mongabay and Instituto Direito e Análise de Dados Socioambientais shows that 97% of the illegal land registries inside the territory actually belong to medium and large commercial properties, while dozens of registrants already own farms elsewhere.

Vulnerable families are being used as pawns or invasion front-runners by powerful businesspeople and politicians to establish a foothold on the land. Within weeks of the law's passage, nearly two hundred people invaded the reserve, smashing through security gates, while forest fires spiked across the area. Human rights advocates warn that using manufactured legal loopholes to open protected forests puts the uncontacted Igarapé Ipiaçava people at immediate risk of destruction.

Read the full investigation by @aimeegabay and @emendonca_journo at the link in our bio, news.mongabay.com, and the new Mongabay App. Find it on both Android and iOS.

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Em meados de agosto, quase 200 pessoas invadiram a Terra Indígena Ituna/Itatá, no Pará, arrombando portões da Funai, derrubando placas de advertência e montando acampamentos dentro de um território reservado a povos indígenas isolados.

Autoridades para o risco iminente de um confronto violento e possível genocídio do povo isolado do Igarapé Ipiaçava.

📲 Entenda como as invasões afetam essa população vulnerável . Visite brasil.mongabay.com ou clique no link da bio e leia a reportagem de Aimee Gabay e Elisângela Mendonça.

📸 AP Photo/Andre Penner (1,4); Foto de Valdir Hobus via Wikimedia Commons (6);
#Mongabay #MeioAmbiente #Natureza #Jornalismo #Ecologia #Brasil #Biodiversidade #Conservação #Diversidade #Preservação #Fauna #Flora

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CCNow is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2026 CCNow Journalism Awards!

Our awards program honors excellent reporting on many critical dimensions of the climate story. Together, their work constitutes the leading edge of climate storytelling.

Judges awarded three Journalists of the Year, three Emerging Journalists of the Year, and CCNow issued our second-ever Lifetime Achievement award.

Judges also named up to three winners in each of 14 subject-based categories, such as the Disinformation, Business, International Relations, Conflict & Displacement & Migration categories in this carousel.

We’ll post more winners in subsequent carousels with #CCNowAwards🏆.

View all the winners and their work at coveringclimatenow.org…

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June recap

June was a reminder that movement is medicine. A month of growth, challenges, adventure, and making memories - both on and off the pitch.

Plenty of:
Hockey 🏑
Swimming 🏊
Climbing 🧗🏽‍♀️
Running 🏃🏽‍♀️
Yoga 🧘🏽‍♀️
Dancing 💃🏽
GHA National Squad FIH friendlies 🇬🇮 VS 🇲🇦
Camping 🏕️
Reconnecting with nature 🍃
Barcelona 📍
Eurohockey MVP 2026 🏆
Sangha - Peak training 💪🏼
New work playground 🛝
Start of LRI preseason - countdown to UEFA Youth League begins 👹

“Always move in all ways” - Issy & Max @on.roots

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I met Rubi a few months ago. The sea swallowed her home during a fierce northern storm.

She’s one of over 70 families forced to leave El Bosque, a coastal community in Mexico that’s been slowly disappearing since 2019 due to rising sea levels. It’s now considered the first town in Mexico erased by the climate crisis.

Rubi and her family were relocated by the government to a new settlement 12 km inland. The new house is nice, she has filled it with plants and they’re grateful—but it doesn’t feel like home yet.

They’ve lost their place by the sea. Their way of life. Their roots.

Some in the community still return to El Bosque to fish. But for Rubi, moving meant starting over in every sense—including finding a job in the city to support her new life.

I had the privilege of spending a few days with her and her family, helping with field production for a story by @samanthaleewq —who kindly invited me along since I was already nearby.

You can now watch the full piece on @mongabay YouTube channel.

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Along with humanitarian and other forms of aid, the U.S. government is one of the world’s biggest funders of nature conservation projects.

In 2023 alone, USAID provided $375.4 million to such projects across the world.

U.S. funding has been spent on a wide range of conservation activities, such as support for wildlife rangers, community conservancies, and forest mapping.

Sources told Mongabay that the shuttering of USAID and abrupt aid pause has left conservation groups worldwide in a state of uncertainty, with some scaling back their activities and planning to lay off staff.

Without consistent funding, ongoing projects face the threat of scaling back or shutting down entirely, potentially impacting, in the long-term, both the environment and the communities that rely on these initiatives for their livelihoods.

According to Mongabay’s research, the funding freeze has affected the operations of many nature-based projects worldwide, particularly in biodiversity hotspots and some of the world’s poorest regions.

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#usaid #environment #conservation #trumpadministration #wildlife #reforestation #forests #fundingfreeze #marineconservation #oceans #wildliferesearch

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A women-led reforestation effort has planted millions of mangrove trees with a high survival rate across swamps in Nigeria’s oil-rich and severely degraded Niger Delta.

For decades, the Ogoni people of the delta’s Ogoniland region have faced the impacts of numerous oil spills, logging, and the spread of invasive nipa palms that destroyed thousands of mangroves they rely on for their livelihoods.

As a result of the reforestation initiative’s reported successes so far, the government has hired some Ogoni women to share their technical knowledge and plant mangroves for its rehabilitation project of contaminated sites (Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project — HYPREP).

While independent studies on the impacts of this reforestation effort are yet to be published, sources say anecdotal evidence suggests that fish stocks are beginning to bounce back and some conservationists say they’re hopeful.

The Niger Delta hosts Africa’s biggest mangrove forest ecosystem and is also home to some of the continent’s largest oil and gas reserves. This vast wetland is home to a rich diversity of marine life, which in turn are important to many local communities in Ogoniland.

While oil beneath Nigeria’s ground dominates the country’s foreign exchange earnings, it’s the wetlands aboveground in the Niger Delta that are key to communities’ local economy.

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Tap the link in bio to read the full article by @AimeeGabay.
Photos by Lokiaka Community Development Centre.
@mamacashfund

#mangroves #conservation #reforestation #forestrestoration #womeninconservation #environment #nigeria #nigerdelta #mangroveforest

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Climate news in review, February 2024.

It’s been an eventful month in the fight for climate justice. At Not Just Celsius, we want to provide a brief review of key news events at the intersection of climate action and legal justice.

Legal action is an increasingly important tool in the fight for climate justice, and this news selection is just a starting point for discussion. Feel free to share more of the climate justice stories that have inspired you this month!

You can find the links to the articles in our „News Story Highlight”.

#climatenews #climatelaw #climatejustice

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Home is where the homies are #whenlifegivesyoulemons

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First bouldering trip to the Peak District gets a 10/10 🧡 can’t believe I waited this long to try and can’t wait to go back! (also I didn’t take most of these photos, so thanks to whoever did and especially Graham for making me discover how funny my try hard slap face looks like)

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