Fabiano Maisonnave

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Reporter with The Associated Press

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Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, and congressional candidate Marina Silva, campaign in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, file)

Brazil's Lula vows to work to reverse Amazon deforestation

Shaking a traditional rattle, Brazil’s incoming head of Indigenous affairs recently walked through every corner of the agency’s headquarters — even its coffee room — as she invoked help from ancestors during a ritual cleansing.

News, Politics | January 23rd 2023

An electoral worker carries an electronic voting machine on a boat to a voting center ahead of tomorrow's elections at the Sao Raimundo port, Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, on Saturday, Oct.1, 2022. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

In Brazil's Amazon regions, polls taken up to 1,000 miles so people can vote

In most democracies, citizens go to the polls. But in Brazil’s sparsely populated Amazon region, the polls often go to the voters.

News, Politics | October 3rd 2022

Police navigate the Itaquai River in the Javari Valley Indigenous territory, Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, on June 10, 2022. AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File

Brazil authorities turning a blind eye to deforestation

Environmental criminals in the Brazilian Amazon destroyed public rainforests equal the size of El Salvador over the past six years, yet the Federal Police — the Brazilian version of the FBI — carried out only seven operations aimed at this massive loss, according to a new study.

News | July 20th 2022

Cattle graze on land recently burned and deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, on Aug. 23, 2020. AP Photo/Andre Penner

Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits tragic milestone in 2022

Satellite images taken between January and June show 4,000 square kilometres of forest destroyed — four times the size of New York City.

News | July 12th 2022

Members of the Deni Indigenous people work during the arapaima fishing season in the Jurua river basin in the Brazilian Amazon on Sept. 15, 2021. AP Photo/Fabiano Maisonnave

Wild species relied on by billions at risk

A new United Nations-backed report says that overexploitation, climate change, pollution and deforestation are pushing one million species towards extinction.

News, Climate Solutions Reporting | July 8th 2022

Indigenous people take part in a march during the 18th annual Free Land Indigenous Camp, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. File photo by The Associated Press/Eraldo Peres

Amazon tribes use social media to ward off unwanted intruders

It was dusk on April 14 when Francisco Kuruaya heard a boat approaching along the river near his village in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. He assumed it was the regular delivery boat bringing gasoline for generators and outboard motors to remote settlements like his. Instead, what Kuruaya found was a barge dredging his people’s pristine river in search of gold.

News | May 3rd 2022

Indigenous people painted with red ink representing spilled Indigenous blood and clay representing gold, march during a protest against the increase of mining activities that are encroaching on their land, in Brazil, Apr. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil court rejects massive Canadian Amazon gold mine project

A Brazilian federal court on Monday upheld the suspension of an environmental license for what would be the largest open−pit gold mine in the nation’s Amazon rainforest, dealing a blow to the Canada−based company behind the project.

News | April 26th 2022