Constance Malleret

Rio de Janeiro

Freelance journalist in Brazil. Writing @guardian @BrazilianReport @WPReview and others. Previously @LatinNewsLondon. French & British, trying to be Carioca.

Articles

Sebastião Salgado, photographer known for Amazon rainforest images, dies aged 81

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Constance Malleret

The Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, whose dramatic black-and-white photographs of the Amazon introduced the rainforest to the world, has died. He was 81. His death was confirmed by the Instituto Terra, the environmental restoration non-profit he founded with his wife of six decades, Lélia Wanick Salgado. In a post on Instagram, the institute described Salgado as “much more than one of the greatest photographers of our time”.
The floating clinics bringing healthcare to the banks of the Amazon

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Constance Malleret

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The floating clinics bringing healthcare to the banks of the Amazon

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Constance Malleret

"It's a weight off my mind," said Ms dos Santos as she stepped back onto dry land, where fellow villagers were queuing for triage, clutching plastic bags containing their medical records. With the boats' focus being primary healthcare, the team of doctors and nurses predominantly distribute vaccines, STI tests and medication for common complaints like musculoskeletal pain and gastrointestinal problems.
The floating clinics bringing healthcare to the banks of the Amazon

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Constance Malleret

In a village on the bank of the Arapiuns river, deep in the Amazon rainforest, simple houses are clustered around a church, a primary school and a football pitch. But there is no doctor’s surgery. Access to healthcare here is precarious – there is no phone signal and only the handful of homes equipped with solar panels have a regular internet connection. To find the nearest medical centre, you have to travel four hours downstream. Santarém, the closest city with hospitals, is eight hours away.
Brazil activists decry green rollbacks as senate passes ‘devastation bill’

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Constance Malleret

Environmental activists in Brazil have decried a dramatic rollback of environmental safeguards after the senate approved a bill that would dismantle licensing processes and increase the risk of widespread destruction. The upper house passed the so-called “devastation bill” with 54 votes to 13 late on Wednesday, paving the way for projects ranging from mining and infrastructure to energy and farming to receive regulatory approval with little to no environmental oversight.
Report links meat giant JBS to massive destruction of jaguar habitat

2 weeks ago | nationofchange.org | Constance Malleret

Agricultural expansion in two Brazilian states has cleared a UK -sized area of jaguar habitat, nearly a fifth of which occurred in the last decade alone, a new report shows. About 27 million hectares (67 million acres) of wild jaguar habitat have been lost as of 2023 in the Amazonian states of Pará and Mato Grosso, with 5 million hectares (12 million acres) deforested just in the period from 2014-2023, according to the report by environmental and human rights advocacy group Global Witness.
Report links meat giant JBS to massive destruction of jaguar habitat

2 weeks ago | news.mongabay.com | Constance Malleret

Agricultural expansion in Brazil’s Pará and Mato Grosso states has destroyed 27 million hectares (67 million acres) of jaguar habitat — an area the size of the U.K. — with 5 million hectares (12 million acres) cleared between 2014 and 2023, most of it illegally. A report by Global Witness links some of this deforestation to indirect suppliers of JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, which has failed to fully uphold its pledge to eliminate illegal deforestation from its supply chain by 2025.
How Indigenous groups in Brazil are using virtual reality to reclaim their stories

2 weeks ago | csmonitor.com | Constance Malleret

A little girl wearing a virtual reality (VR) headset giggles and grasps at the air in front of her. “A blue macaw!” she calls out in delight. The girl is in the Brazilian capital, but the headset transports her to a fictitious Indigenous village in the Atlantic rainforest, where capybaras and jaguars dart across the landscape. The five-minute simulation is modeled on the Guarani Kaiowá territory in Mato Grosso do Sul, near the border with Paraguay.
‘Now I steal people’s attention’: how a Brazilian newspaper has turned a city’s rough sleepers into journalists

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Constance Malleret

Every Tuesday afternoon, Michel Vasconcelos goes to an open-air market in Porto Alegre, a city in southern Brazil, his backpack full of newspapers to sell, to which he contributes words and illustrations. “I used to steal and deal drugs,” says Vasconcelos, 43, who ended up living on the streets due to a family fall out. It was there that he got involved, nearly 10 years ago, with the project Boca de Rua (Word on the Street) and became, in his own words, a paperboy and journalist.
‘A future on our terms’: how community energy is lighting up Latin America

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Constance Malleret

When the coronavirus pandemic hit in 2020, Roxana Borda Mamani had to leave Mexico, where she was studying for her degree in rural development and food security, and return to her remote village in the Peruvian Amazon. At the time, the Indigenous community in Alto Mishagua had neither an internet connection nor a reliable energy source. “How am I going to study?” Borda asked.