#CorredorFurtivo: A Conversation About Environmental Crimes in the Venezuelan Amazon (Spanish). In this live conversation taking place on Twitter Spaces, the staff of the investigative journalism site Armando Info will talk with the editor of the Pulitzer Center's Rainforest Investigations Network. Through investigative grants, the reporters have dedicated themselves to revealing the actors and organizations behind environmental crimes and conflicts with indigenous communities in the southern region of Venezuela.
In this discussion, we will delve into the reasons why the reporters chose the topic of this investigation, which was also published in partnership with the prestigious Spanish newspaper El País.
They will also talk about the methodology applied to map illegal airstrips and the gold mines that are exploited by criminal organizations and Colombian guerrilla dissidents that nestle in the Venezuelan Amazon, with the acquiescence of Nicolás Maduro's regime.
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Europe: Destroying Jungles To Make Underpants. This report was originally written in Spanish and is posted on the El País website. To read the full Spanish version, click here. Polyester is the most widely used fabric in the world. It comes from.
/PRNewswire/ The Bezos Earth Fund announced it awarded 44 grants totaling $443 million to organizations focused on climate justice, nature conservation and.
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Sand-dredging boats near an area cleared for sand mining on Poyang Lake, Jiangxi province, December 2019. Photo: Reuters/Aly Song
Over two decades, dredging ships have sucked massive amounts of sand from the bed and shores of Poyang Lake in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi, drastically altering the ability of its ecosystem to function.
Decades of mass urbanisation in China have fuelled demand for sand to make glass, concrete and other materials used in construction. The most desirable sand for industry comes from rivers and lakes rather than deserts and oceans. Much of the sand used to build the country’s megacities has come from Poyang, China’s largest freshwater lake.