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Mario Osava is living his journalistic dream. The 63-year-old correspondent for Inter Press Services, a Mott grantee, is digging deep and uncovering the effects of large infrastructure projects on Brazil’s 192 million residents, their livelihoods, and the local environment. Read an article on Mott’s Web site at bit.ly/IPS-Brazil describing the places he visits, people he interviews and projects he investigates. “It is very rewarding for me to visit projects,” Osava said. “These stories are not based on other people’s testimonies or from phone interviews, but by contacting people in their local reality far from big cities, such as in the Amazon.” For more news about Mott’s overall grantmaking, go to Mott.org.
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Inter Press Service (IPS) Latin America — based in Montevideo, Uruguay — is a grantee of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation’s Environment Program and funded through Mott’s International Finance for Sustainability focus area.
The Amazon River, the world’s second longest river (after the Nile), flows through the Amazon Rainforest, which is the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest on the planet.
–Photo courtesy of NASA
Mario Osava (front of the boat) is a correspondent for IPS Latin America and writes regularly about development projects – such as dams, bridges and roads – and their impact on people, their livelihoods and the environment.
–Photo courtesy of IPS
Signs of regional integration in South America in the past several years include bridge projects, such as the one that spans the Acre River and connects the border towns of Brasiléia, Brazil and Cobija, Bolivia.
—Photo courtesy of Mario Osava
Mott grantees work to protect the rights of people living along rivers in South America whose livelihoods could be adversely impacted by the construction of nearby hydroelectric dams.
—Photo courtesy of Mario Osava
Scientists say turtles spawning on Juncal Beach along the Xingu River could suffer indirect negative impacts from Brazil’s proposed Belo Monte Dam.
—Photo courtesy of Mario Osava
As more highways crisscross South America, they are changing the continent’s landscape. Investigative reporting helps raise awareness about balancing the region’s economic and environmental needs.
—Photo courtesy of Mario Osava
In addition to transporting grain, pipelines are sprouting up throughout South America to carry oil and gas to keep up with increased demands.
—Photo courtesy of Mario Osava
More than 1,000 people living in the Amazon Basin stand in unity to spell out a message in Portuguese that is visible from the air – “Save the Amazon.”
—Photo courtesy of Spectral Agency
For more information about IPS Latin America, visit its Web site: http://ipsnews.net/latin.asp.
Read more on Mott’s Web site:http://bit.ly/IPS-Brazil.
