In 2022, Mongabay continued its mission to hold the powerful to account through its investigative reporting program. Below is a selection of some of our most impactful work this year. Exclusive: Shark finning rampant across Chinese tuna firm’s fleet Following on from Mongabay’s 2021 investigation into Dalian Ocean Fishing, which looked at how the Chinese […]
ALTO ACARÁ, Brazil “The right of those who used to live here to access the cemetery is in the [Brazilian] Constitution. … The cemetery is a sacred place,” sociologist and historian Maria da Paz Saavedra told Mongabay during a visit to Our Lady of Battle Cemetery in the Amazon. The area, located in northern […]
ALTO ACARÁ, Brazil With trembling hands, Raimundo Serrão lights candles for his grandmother at the Livramento Cemetery’s cross on the Day of the Dead because he couldn’t find her grave. Serrão and others in the area say one of the country’s leading palm oil exporters has buried it under palm crops. “They have planted […]