The current economic, political, and environmental landscape of the Amazon is complicated at best. Protected areas have swelled in recent decades, indigenous rights have been improved in some places, while investments by both foreign and domestic financiers in large-scale energy and infrastructure development have raised questions about their environmental and social impacts in the world's largest rainforest. Mongabay.org's Special Reporting Initiative (SRI) program has recently awarded two different reporting prizes to journalists to tackle these vital and complicated issues in-depth.
A journalist with over 20 years experience reporting on the environment in South America, Barbara Fraser will explore the Amazon’s growing system of protected areas and their impacts on life in the region. In many cases, the mission of Amazonian protected areas has expanded from biodiversity conservation to improving human welfare. However, given the multiple purposes and diverse management of many of these area, it is often difficult to measure their effect on human populations. Fraser's reporting will ask: what are the true effects of Amazonian protected areas on people, both locally and globally?
Read the full article here or learn more about this Special Reporting Initiative here.
The Amazonian protected areas: benefits for people Special Reporting Initiative is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
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