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Sue Branford's Blogs

Sue Branford is a senior editor at LAB, specializing in Brazil, the Amazon and the environment. Her blogs collect some of her diary accounts of trips to the Amazon and other themes she has pursued in her reporting. Sue worked in Brazil in the 1970s as correspondent for The Financial Times, The Economist and The Observer. Back in the UK, she worked for the BBC World Service and since then she has returned frequently to Brazil on reporting trips for the Times, the Guardian and Mongabay.

1: Altamira, vítima de Belo Monte

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  Publicado originalmente em 07 de março de 2016. Na primeira de seis postagens, Sue Branford descreve uma cidade onde as promessas de um pródigo desenvolvimento...

Terra do Meio 3: O rio Iriri – conservação e seus...

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Na terceira de seis postagens, uma discussão sobre os problemas dos colonos (barragens, legislação ambiental, grileiros) e uma visita a uma fazenda “fantasma”. Tradução: Maria...

Part 6: Fordlândia

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In the sixth and final episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford takes time off to visit Fordlândia, Henry Ford's failed attempt to create rubber plantations in the Brazilian Amazon.

Terra do Meio 2: Famílias sob risco de expulsão na Estação...

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Na segunda de seis postagens, Sue Branford fala de uma área onde a criação de uma unidade de conservação ambiental coloca comunidades tradicionais sob...

Transparency in Jacareacanga: Don’t you dare talk to me!

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The company in charge of environmental impact studies for hydro-electric plants on the Tapajos river does not like journalists.

3. The Iriri river, conservation and its costs

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A discussion with settlers about their problems: dams, conservation regulations and land thieves; and a visit to a 'ghost' ranch.

4. Xipaya Indians & Beiradeiros: a tale of two cultures

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Visits to Arara and Xipaya indian communities and beiradeiro river people, the conflicts, agreements and pursuit of fair treatment.

Rio Trombetas: The Last Quilombo

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Indigenous villagers protesting against hydro-electric projects face escalating intimidation.

2. Terra do Meio: Families risk eviction from Ecological Preserve

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Sue Branford reaches an area whose 'ecology' designation puts long-term residents at risk of losing their homes and land

Part 3: Uruará

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In the third episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford reaches Uruará, a town of some 50,000 inhabitants on the Transamazônica highway.

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