FJA Shortlist 2022
Category: Excellence in Environmental Journalism
Author: Jill Langlois (Brazil)
For the Kayapó, a Long Battle to Save Their Amazon Homeland
The original publication is available via the following link:
https://e360.yale.edu/features/for-the-kayapo-a-long-battle-to-save-their-amazon-homeland
March 29, 2022
Yale Environment 360, with support from the Pulitzer Center and the Amazon Rainforest Journalism Fund
For decades, the Kayapó of Brazil have fought to protect their territory from successive waves of loggers, miners, farmers, and land grabbers. Now, with a recently paved highway and a planned railway closing in on their lands, the Kayapó’s struggle is far from over. Read more