Gabriel Leão

  • Renaud Phillippe, Ana Carolina Mira Porto, Renato Farac Galata, and members of the Guarani people. Photo: Eduardo Medeiros.
On November 22, 2023, Canadian journalist and photographer Renaud Phillipe was assaulted by balaclava-wearing men, likely farmers...
  • River and forest in the state of Para in northern Brzail. Photo from Wikimedia.
In October, media in Brazil reported alleged fraud in a carbon credit scheme involving a Canadian corporation. The Public...
  • Satellite image of the Xingu River in the Para province in northern Brazil. The PVG project is proposed for the Volta Grande region of the river.
The Canadian-Brazilian mining company Belo Sun has been accused of committing omissions, illegalities, and intimidations against...
  • Writer and actor Tracy Dawson.
The strike initiated on May 2nd by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) is, proponents argue, a response to the profound inequality...
The disappearance and the slaughtering of British journalist Dom Phillips, age 57, and Brazilian expert in Indigenous affairs...
Gabriel Leão Aug 25
  • Aerial view of the mining plant and stockyard of the S11D Complex, the world's largest open-pit iron ore mine, controlled by Vale, in the Carajás region of Pará state. Ricardo Teles/ Agência Vale
How much money is being invested into mining activities exploiting the three largest tropical forest basins in the world: the...
Gabriel Leão Apr 12
  • Aerial view of the Volta Grande (Big Bend) region of the Xingu and the Vila da Ressaca community, which is threatened by Belo Sun. Photo: Cícero Pedrosa Neto/ Amazon Watch
In February, the American NGO Amazon Watch and the grassroots Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) released the...
  • Cannabis being weighed. Photo: Add Weed on Unsplash
Medicinal cannabis was legalized in Canada in 2001, the result of public pressure. It had been illegal since 1923. And in 2018,...
Gabriel Leão Oct 11
Belo Sun, a Canadian-based mining company with most of its operations in Brazil, has been called out for its activities in the...