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Fabiano Maisonnave

Fabiano Maisonnave is Climate Home News' Latin America correspondent. He 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.
Fabiano Maisonnave
A brutal murder reveals the chaos spreading in Bolsonaro’s Amazon

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

Brazil reverses decision to cancel Latin American climate week

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

Brazil cancels Latin American climate summit

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

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

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

Podcast: Reporting from the Amazon under Bolsonaro

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

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

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

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

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

Brazil to review Paris Agreement status, says Bolsonaro environment minister

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’

Bolsonaro's deforestation of the Amazon has already begun

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

Bolsonaro has made grim threats to the Amazon and its people

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

Norway oil fund omits meatpacker JBS from deforestation watch list

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

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

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

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

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?

The Brazilian state letting illegal Amazon loggers keep logging

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

Will these hand-painted signs be enough to stop a dam in the Amazon?

Will these hand-painted signs be enough to stop a dam in the Amazon?

With indigenous land demarcations frozen across Brazil, illegal mining and hydro dams threaten the Amazon. Communities are taking matters into their own hands

Rich countries 'trying to turn climate funds into World Bank'

Rich countries ‘trying to turn climate funds into World Bank’

The rich are ‘renegotiating’ the Paris climate deal by trying to limit access for middle income countries to climate finance, it has been claimed

Fight over finance threatens end of climate talks

Fight over finance threatens end of climate talks

As climate talks head into their final hours, a disagreement over how rich countries will report their plans to finance climate action could boil over

Indigenous peoples given a voice at UN climate talks

Indigenous peoples given a voice at UN climate talks

Often persecuted, indigenous people have now been accepted into the climate process and a space made for their voices to be heard

It's war in the Amazon, says Brazil's top environmental law enforcer

It’s war in the Amazon, says Brazil’s top environmental law enforcer

Local politicians are colluding with gangs to undermine rainforest protection, Luciano Evaristo tells delegates at UN climate talks in Bonn

Nicaragua joined Paris pact in bid for top climate fund appointment: sources

Nicaragua joined Paris pact in bid for top climate fund appointment: sources

Chief negotiator Paul Oquist is lined up to be the next developing country co-chair of the Green Climate Fund, prompting a rethink on UN deal, say diplomats

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