Leandro Chaves

About the writer

Repórter do InfoAmazonia no projeto PlenaMata, Leandro foi editor-chefe do portal Página 20.Net e repórter no jornal impresso Página 20 e no site ContilNet Notícias. Trabalhou também como diretor de comunicação na Comissão Pró-Índio do Acre, Biblioteca da Floresta e Fundação de Cultura Garibaldi Brasil. É formado em Comunicação Social com habilitação em Jornalismo pela Universidade Federal do Acre (Ufac).

Brazil was responsible for 70% of the CO2e emissions from deforestation in Pan-Amazonia over the last 35 years" alt="
Stories November 18, 2022

Brazil was responsible for 70% of the CO2e emissions from deforestation in Pan-Amazonia over the last 35 years

A MapBiomas study released at COP27 on changes in land use in threatened South American ecosystems found that expanding farming and cattle raising activities were drivers for the loss of Amazonian forests between 1985 and 2020.
By Leandro Chaves via InfoAmazonia
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Stories November 11, 2022

The challenges Lula will face to eradicate illegal deforestation in Amazonia by 2028

Specialists focus on the difficulties the new 2023 administration faces to reach the goal promised by the Bolsonaro administration at COP26 last year. Escalating deforestation rates could keep Brazil from carrying out its promise.
By Leandro Chaves via InfoAmazonia
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Stories November 9, 2022

Protected areas absorb 27% of greenhouse gas emissions in Amazonia

A Brazilian Climate Observatory study found that the dense vegetation in the states of Amazonas and Amapá, regions whose territories are more than half composed of Conservation Units and Indigenous Territories, was able to remove all the CO2e that had been released to their atmosphere in 2021.
By Leandro Chaves via InfoAmazonia
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Stories October 28, 2022

Four years of Bolsonaro’s Amazon destruction, in pictures

Deforastation in the Amazon has spiralled out of control during Jair Bolsonaro’s as president. InfoAmazonia and PlenaMata have illustrated the destruction using satellite imagery.
By Leandro Chaves and Fabio Bispo via InfoAmazonia
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Stories October 7, 2022

Pro-environment bloc in the Chamber shrinks by 20%, but gains heavyweight names

Brazilians elect 81 federal deputies committed to the environmental cause, 20 fewer than in the current legislature. Former environment minister Marina Silva and indigenous leader Sônia Guajajara promise to heat up debates on the issue in Brasília.
By Leandro Chaves via InfoAmazonia
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Stories September 28, 2022

60 candidates in Amazonia had their campaigns funded by deforesters

They received a total of R$1.77 million in 8 states. Most belong to parties in Bolsonaro’s support base in Congress, in particular the Partido Liberal (PL) and the União Brasil. A candidate from Acre, convicted of modern slavery, received the largest donation to any candidate in the Amazon from his own father, arrested for environmental crime.
By Leandro Chaves via InfoAmazonia
Deforestation in the Amazon in the month of July increases by 160% during the past three years of the Bolsonaro administration" alt="
Stories August 29, 2022

Deforestation in the Amazon in the month of July increases by 160% during the past three years of the Bolsonaro administration

An area the size of the city of São Paulo was deforested in the Amazon in July 2022 alone. Pará state leads the monthly ranking; however, the cumulative total for the year shows Amazonas state in the lead for the first time. Estimates suggest that the annual rate of deforestation in the biome will be the highest since 2006.
By Leandro Chaves via InfoAmazonia
“The Javari Valley shows us how the words of a president can lead to an <br>increase in crime”, says the indigenista Carlos Travassos" alt="
Stories July 6, 2022

“The Javari Valley shows us how the words of a president can lead to an
increase in crime”, says the indigenista Carlos Travassos

With 15 years of experience in defending isolated and recently contacted peoples, the geographer and indigenous agency worker – known as indigenistas in Brazil – tells us how he noticed the emergence of a sophisticated criminal structure after the inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro at the place where Dom and Bruno were murdered.
By Leandro Chaves via InfoAmazonia
Project harkens back to the historic Alliance of the Forest Peoples in the state of Acre" alt="
Civil Society July 4, 2022

Project harkens back to the historic Alliance of the Forest Peoples in the state of Acre

The partnership promotes the integrated management of nine indigenous lands and three extractive reserves to ensure sustainability and preserve the forest.
By Leandro Chaves
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Uncategorized June 16, 2022

“The Javari Valley shows us how the words of a president can lead to an
increase in crime”, says the indigenista Carlos Travassos

The murders of the indigenista Bruno Pereira and the British journalist Dom Phillips attracted the world’s gazes to the region of the Javari Valley, in the west of Amazonas. The second largest indigenous land in Brazil is home to the largest number of isolated populations in the world and has two National Indian Foundation (Funai) […]
By Leandro Chaves via InfoAmazonia

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