María Ramírez Cabello

Journalism

A Venezuelan journalist with more than 17 years of professional experience, with a special interest in investigating and understanding the intersection between the economy, the environment, and human rights. She is a co-founder of the Venezuelan Amazon Journalists Network and a professor of investigative journalism at UCAB Guayana. She was a fellow with the Rainforest Research Network (RIN) and the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Journalism Fund. She contributes to international media and works on cross-border collaborative projects focusing on extractive industries, socio-environmental conflicts, and crime. She is a member of teams that have won the Gabo, IPYS Venezuela, SIP, and ONA awards.

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Open Calls

Public call for journalistic reports based on biodiversity data
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Projects

A morte da lagoa habitada pela sucuri de cabeça de cera na Amazônia venezuelana
Science outreach / Journalism

This report investigates the severe environmental and social impacts caused by gold mining in the Pemón indigenous community of Apoipó, in the Venezuelan Amazon.

It had the scientific collaboration of Anthony Barbosa and Kathleen Sena, students of The Training Program in Quantitative Ecology.

Read the full article.