Environmental crimes don’t stop at borders. Neither can the reporting

Mongabay Latam investigations editor Daniela Quintero describes coordinating cross-border reporting on environmental crime in the Amazon, including a prior investigation into gold smuggled through Venezuela after Brazil tightened controls. She also runs a fellowship training journalists from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru on nature-crime investigations.

The piece is largely a career profile: Quintero's path from sociology through Colombia's El Espectador into environmental journalism, and her argument that ecological crimes are inseparable from corruption, organized crime and Indigenous rights.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.