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Fabiano Maisonnave

Fabiano Maisonnave lives in Manaus and is the Amazon correspondent for Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil’s most influential newspaper. A 2016 Nieman Fellow, he also has served as the paper’s correspondent in Washington, Caracas, and Beijing and has reported from 31 countries.
    Feb 18, 2022
    Nature

    Amazon indigenous community restores giant freshwater fish and thrives

    Through control of their territory, the Deni people sustainably manage stocks of pirarucu, boosting their numbers 425% in 11 years
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    Oct 15, 2021
    News

    On the edge of the Amazon, Manoki people grow soy and fight for land rights

    In Mato Grosso, an indigenous group that was almost wiped out by white settlers is balancing tradition and modern agriculture to survive
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    Sep 3, 2021
    Justice

    On a mission: Evangelicals flock to the Amazon home of isolated tribes

    On Brazil’s border with Peru, evangelical churches are multiplying, in a threat to uncontacted indigenous groups
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    Mar 5, 2021
    Nature

    Descendants of former slaves in the Brazilian Amazon are still waiting for their land rights

    The process of providing land deeds to communities founded by former slaves was slow before Jair Bolsonaro, but the president’s budget cuts have completely stalled progress
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    Dec 21, 2020
    Nature

    The net tightens around illegal logging operations in Pará, Bolsonaro’s stronghold

    Uruará voted for Brazil’s rightwing president hoping for a more relaxed approach to illegal logging, but enforcement agencies are cracking down
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    Nov 13, 2020
    Nature

    Landless Brazilians are invading more and more protected areas of the Amazon

    Emboldened by President Bolsonaro, landless people are settling in environmental reserves and indigenous territories
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    Sep 11, 2020
    Nature

    Encouraged by Bolsonaro, land grabbers advance on Amazon indigenous territory

    Illegal settlements are springing up on indigenous territories in the Brazilian Amazon, driving deforestation
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    Jul 28, 2020
    Justice

    Amazon land grabbers are destroying brazil nut groves for cattle pasture

    Emboldened by a promised amnesty on land seizures, cattle ranchers are felling brazil nut trees, edging out families who have harvested them for generations
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    Jul 5, 2020
    Justice

    The Amazon home of Bolsonaro’s mineral fantasy

    Indigenous inhabitants of the region with the largest deposits of niobium in the world claim the right to decide what is done with the metal
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    Mar 6, 2020
    Justice

    The second death of Chico Mendes

    Rubber tappers burn an Amazon forest reserve in Brazil to clear land to raise cattle – deforestation has increased under President Jair Bolsonaro
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    Jun 19, 2019
    Nature

    A brutal murder reveals the chaos spreading in Bolsonaro’s Amazon

    When Carlos Cabral was killed this month, it seemed history was repeating itself in a corner of the Amazon known for violence. But the real story was more disturbing
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    May 20, 2019
    News

    Brazil reverses decision to cancel Latin American climate week

    Government backtracks under pressure from mayor of host city, who is a political friend of president Jair Bolsonaro
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    May 14, 2019
    News

    Brazil cancels Latin American climate summit

    After backing out of hosting the 2019 UN climate summit, the Bolsonaro administration has changed its plan to hold a week-long event in Salvador
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    May 13, 2019
    Nature

    Bolsonaro’s plan to unlock the Amazon: split its indigenous peoples

    Congress is blocking Brazil’s leader from expanding farming on indigenous lands, now he is making alliances with some traditional landowners
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    Apr 25, 2019
    Nature

    Podcast: Reporting from the Amazon under Bolsonaro

    At a special event in London, CHN’s Amazon correspondent Fabiano Maisonnave speaks to Karl Mathiesen about the challenges facing the world’s most important rainforest
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    Mar 29, 2019
    Nature

    Brazil: Official who fined Bolsonaro for illegal fishing in 2012 is fired

    The $2,500 fine launched a seven year vendetta against José Olímpio Augusto Morelli and the agency that protects the Amazon, from the man who now runs the country
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    Feb 19, 2019
    News

    Brazil’s first indigenous congresswoman defends her people’s rights from Bolsonaro

    Joênia Wapichana helped to win land titles for five indigenous groups in Brazil’s far north, but the president is threatening to re-open the area to white farmers and miners
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    Dec 9, 2018
    Nature

    Brazil to review Paris Agreement status, says Bolsonaro environment minister

    Ricardo de Aquino Salles, a close ally of farming interests, was named as minister on Sunday, he said the conversation about global warming was ‘secondary’
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    Nov 14, 2018
    Nature

    Bolsonaro’s deforestation of the Amazon has already begun

    Loss of forest cover jumped almost 50% during the election campaign, in anticipation of looser environmental regulations
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    Oct 8, 2018
    Nature

    Bolsonaro has made grim threats to the Amazon and its people

    Presidential favourite would abolish Brazil’s environment ministry, exposing world’s largest rainforest and its indigenous owners to criminal gangs of loggers and miners
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    Apr 4, 2018
    News

    Norway oil fund omits meatpacker JBS from deforestation watch list

    The $1 trillion investor is raising deforestation concerns with a number of beef companies but not the Amazon’s biggest cattle buyer, despite evidence against it
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    Mar 20, 2018
    Nature

    US, EU biggest importers of illegal Amazon ipe timber: report

    Dodgy credits allow exporters to ship the valuable timber overseas, to unsuspecting consumers who are unaware the timber may be illegal
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    Feb 14, 2018
    Politics

    A gold mine swallowed their village. This Amazon tribe is here to take it back

    At the head of a poisoned river, the Munduruku find a devastated land where their village once stood. Can they stop the illegal mining that stole their homes?
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    Jan 25, 2018
    Nature

    The Brazilian state letting illegal Amazon loggers keep logging

    In Mato Grosso, logging permits are issued that allow export to European markets, even to those charged with crimes by federal authorities
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