Aimee Gabay
@aimeegabay.bsky.social
I write about the environment and communities for Mongabay // Words in the Guardian, Al Jazeera, New Scientist, Grist & Live Science.
While this has led to some positive results in the form of security and conservation work, now in 2025, the Wampís still find themselves vying for control over their land.
The chief hurdle is that the state has not recognized the autonomous nation.
The chief hurdle is that the state has not recognized the autonomous nation.
September 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
While this has led to some positive results in the form of security and conservation work, now in 2025, the Wampís still find themselves vying for control over their land.
The chief hurdle is that the state has not recognized the autonomous nation.
The chief hurdle is that the state has not recognized the autonomous nation.
For decades, they resisted the expansion of oil drilling and other extractive projects in their Amazonian territory, to little avail.
By declaring themselves autonomous, they sought to change this.
By declaring themselves autonomous, they sought to change this.
September 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
For decades, they resisted the expansion of oil drilling and other extractive projects in their Amazonian territory, to little avail.
By declaring themselves autonomous, they sought to change this.
By declaring themselves autonomous, they sought to change this.
The first story for the series is a profile on Yaqui water defender Mario Luna Romero, who has received constant threats to his life for his work. He was arrested in 2014 and spent a year and 11 days in a maximum-security prison.
Full story for @mongabay.com here: news.mongabay.com/2024/07/as-d...
Full story for @mongabay.com here: news.mongabay.com/2024/07/as-d...
As drought parches Mexico, a Yaqui water defender fights for a sacred river
YAQUI VALLEY, Mexico — On Sept. 11, 2014, Mario Luna Romero was arrested by state judicial police in Obregón, a city on the periphery of his tribe’s territory in Sonora, and transported to a maximum-s...
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June 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The first story for the series is a profile on Yaqui water defender Mario Luna Romero, who has received constant threats to his life for his work. He was arrested in 2014 and spent a year and 11 days in a maximum-security prison.
Full story for @mongabay.com here: news.mongabay.com/2024/07/as-d...
Full story for @mongabay.com here: news.mongabay.com/2024/07/as-d...
🔗 The full story for @mongabay.bsky.social: news.mongabay.com/2025/04/indi...
Indigenous aguaje tree climbers bring down profits in Peru’s Amazon — sustainably
The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical South America, form a rounded crown on its head from which its oval-shaped...
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April 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🔗 The full story for @mongabay.bsky.social: news.mongabay.com/2025/04/indi...
My latest story looks into one alternative income option that has taken hold in communities. This involves the sustainable harvesting and selling of Amazonian fruit. I focus specifically on the potential of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in tropical South America.
April 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My latest story looks into one alternative income option that has taken hold in communities. This involves the sustainable harvesting and selling of Amazonian fruit. I focus specifically on the potential of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in tropical South America.
In some cases, communities have become dependent on mining projects because of a lack of alternative income options. They may be cut off from markets or at the mercy of shrinking rivers during severe drought.
April 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
In some cases, communities have become dependent on mining projects because of a lack of alternative income options. They may be cut off from markets or at the mercy of shrinking rivers during severe drought.
Residents say the contamination has killed so much livestock that one community had to open a cemetery specifically for animals.
March 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Residents say the contamination has killed so much livestock that one community had to open a cemetery specifically for animals.
For several months a year, due to flooding by the nearby dam, homes and pastures are inundated with contaminated water, forcing residents to migrate to higher ground.
March 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
For several months a year, due to flooding by the nearby dam, homes and pastures are inundated with contaminated water, forcing residents to migrate to higher ground.
A Mongabay estimate found that, based on a company map of the port and 2020 data of the ecosystem, it could impact 341.59 hectares (844 acres) of mangroves.
March 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A Mongabay estimate found that, based on a company map of the port and 2020 data of the ecosystem, it could impact 341.59 hectares (844 acres) of mangroves.
The Alcântara Port Terminal will be constructed within the Reentrâncias Maranhenses environmental protection area (APA), a Ramsar site. It is connected to four other important wetland sites nearby, which together form one of the largest continuous area of mangroves in the world.
March 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The Alcântara Port Terminal will be constructed within the Reentrâncias Maranhenses environmental protection area (APA), a Ramsar site. It is connected to four other important wetland sites nearby, which together form one of the largest continuous area of mangroves in the world.