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Talks @ Pulitzer: Marcio Pimenta on Activism and the Environment in the Amazon

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February 24, 2020 | 5:30 PM

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Pulitzer Center
1779 Massachusetts Ave NW
Suite 615

Washington, DC 20036

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Region of deforested forest in the Acrean Amazon. Image by Marcio Pimenta. Brazil, 2019. 
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By land and air, a photo essay that shows fire in the heart of the Amazon.

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The data is from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), which also points out that over 80 percent of the territory devoured by flames is in the Amazon. In Bujari, Acre, several fire outbreaks can be observed. Image by Marcio Pimenta. Brazil, 2019.
The data is from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), which also points out that over 80 percent of the territory devoured by flames is in the Amazon. In Bujari, Acre, several fire outbreaks can be observed. Image by Marcio Pimenta. Brazil, 2019.

On Monday, February 24, 2020, please join us for a Talks @ Pulitzer, as Pulitzer Center grantee and photojournalist Marcio Pimenta discusses his reporting in the Amazon.

Pimenta's Pulitzer Center-supported projects focus on activism and the environment in the Amazon. Most recently, he covered the 2019 fire outbreaks that devastated vegetation and communities. Another focus of Pimenta's Pulitzer Center-supported reporting highlighted the Wampi ethnic group of Peru as they defended their territory from illegal miners and the oil industry.

Pimenta is a freelance photojournalist based in southern Brazil. His work has appeared in National GeographicRolling StoneThe Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and El País. Previous reporting projects have brought him to Iraq, where he covered the rebirth of the Yazidi women, and Antarctica.

This event is the second of a 2020 Talks @ Pulitzer series on political and environmental reporting from Latin America.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is requested. Light reception at 5:30 p.m., with program start at 6:00 p.m.

Click here for the livestream.