🇲🇽 María Teresa Montaño Delgado, founder of @TheObserverMex.
Her investigations on cases of corruption and embezzlement by the state’s administration have earned her many threats. She shares her information with the #SafeBoxNetwork.
An award-winning documentary filmmaker, he founded in 2017 Forbidden Stories, a network of investigative journalists aiming to keep threatened journalists' stories alive.
🔴 NEW INVESTIGATION - Toxic Gold: the heavy toll of Ghana’s illegal gold rush
In our first #GreenCrimes investigation, conducted in collaboration with @fourthestategh and @reporters_co, we uncovered the toll of Ghana's illegal gold mines. Farmers are evicted to expand mines, gold is trafficked, and money is openly laundered. 🧵 1/5
@fourthestategh @reporters_co Violence is omnipresent in southwestern Ghana, the epicenter of the country’s gold rush, and journalists trying to report on it have been abducted, beaten or received death threats. 🧵 2/5
Using satellite imagery from 2024 and Earth Index’s AI model, we’ve pinpointed the areas most affected by mining in southwestern Ghana. The algorithm analyzes the distinctive patterns of artisanal mining operations, allowing us to identify nearly 150,000 hectares of mining sites — some located in protected areas. 🧵 3/5
🔴 How are Israeli drones killing journalists in Gaza?
For the #GazaProject, 50 journalists from 13 international newsrooms coordinated by @FbdnStories investigated the targeting of those who were covering the war. ⬇️
Samer Abu Daqqa, Abdallah Al-Hajj, Ahmed Fatima, Anas Al-Sharif… their names are among those of the 18 reporters we identified as injured or killed by precision strikes launched by drones, since the outbreak of Israel’s war in Gaza following Hamas’ terrorist attack on October 7th. Four of them were wearing press vests and were clearly identifiable as journalists.
👉 forbiddenstories.org/death-from-abo…
The Israeli military is also using several artificial intelligence systems to generate targets. Lavender, an artificial intelligence–based program used to generate a kill list of over 37,000 people, has served as a blueprint for signature drone strikes since October 7, the consortium found.
En partant de cette annonce, nous avons découvert des dizaines et des dizaines de parcelles enregistrées au nom d’individus dans des zones de l’Amazonie pourtant protégées et interdites à la propriété.
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Qui se cache derrière ce système organisé d’accaparement des terres? 🧐
Un puissant agriculteur déjà mis en cause dans une série d'incendies qui ont décimé l’Amazonie en 2019, Agamenon da Silva Menezes.
Ce dernier a confirmé au consortium les enregistrements des terrains.
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Using this post as a starting point, we discovered dozens and dozens of plots registered in the name of individuals in protected areas in the Amazon. 2/6 Image: Guillaume Meigniez
Who's behind this organized land grabbing scheme? 🧐
A powerful rancher allegedly implicated in a series of fires that decimated the Amazon in 2019, Agamenon da Silva Menezes.
He confirmed the land registrations to the consortium.
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Em restaurantes holandeses 🇳🇱, supermercados alemães 🇩🇪 ou cantinas francesas 🇫🇷, pode-se consumir, sem saber, carne bovina ligada ao desmatamento na Amazônia🌳
Isso é o que revelamos nesta segunda parte do #BrunoDomProject 1/4
Antes de ser assassinado, o jornalista Dom Phillips estava investigando a JBS, a Marfrig e a Minerva, as principais multinacionais de carne bovina do Brasil. 🥩
A indústria da carne é a principal causa do desmatamento no Brasil.
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Ao prosseguir com seu trabalho, descobrimos que a Marfrig estava se abastecendo em uma fazenda acusada de desmatamento, que Dom Phillips já havia investigado.
A carne bovina ligada ao desmatamento agora pode ser encontrada na Europa.
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You can find it in Dutch restaurants 🇳🇱 German supermarkets🇩🇪 or French lunchrooms 🇫🇷
You might have eaten it without knowing. Beef linked to Amazon deforestation could be making its way onto your plate🌳
That’s what we’re revealing in the second part of the #BrunoDomProject 1/4
Before he was killed, journalist Dom Phillips was investigating JBS, Marfrig and Minerva, Brazil’s three most important beef multinationals.🥩
The cattle industry is the biggest cause of deforestation in Brazil.
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Pursuing his work, we discovered that Marfrig was getting its beef supply from a farm accused of contributing to deforestation and which Phillips had already investigated.
Meat from this slaughterhouse ends up in Europe.
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