Steven Grattan

@sjgrattan

@AP Amazon rainforest/deforestation reporter | Previously Reuters in Brazil | N. Ireland is home | 📧: sgrattan@ap.org 🏳️‍🌈

Bogotá, D.C., Colombia stevengrattan.com Joined November 2012

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Steven Grattan @sjgrattan Sep 16, 2025

Here is my story on pink river dolphins, which provide a worrying indicator of mercury levels from illegal gold mining along the Amazon River.

The Associated Press Verified account @AP Sep 16, 2025

Scientists in Colombia’s Amazon are capturing and testing endangered pink river dolphins to monitor mercury contamination from illegal gold mining and deforestation. Mercury levels have been found far above safe limits and populations have sharply declined.

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Steven Grattan @sjgrattan Oct 26

Deep in Suriname’s rainforest, we joined Saamaka communities mapping their ancestral lands for signs of illegal logging and mining, and took to the skies in a helicopter.

A powerful visual story, with stunning video and photos from my AP colleagues.

apnews.com/article/saamak…

apnews.com Suriname’s Saamaka tribe turns to mapping and documenting in effort to protect the Amazon rainforest The Saamaka people in Suriname are using modern technology to map their ancestral lands. They hope to get government recognition and protection against illegal logging and mining.

Steven Grattan @sjgrattan Oct 21

Satellite internet, drones and online platforms are helping criminal groups carry out illegal mining and other environmental crimes across Latin America, prompting calls for stronger oversight.

apnews.com/article/techno…

apnews.com Human rights commission urges oversight of technology used in Latin American environmental crime A human rights commission is calling for stronger oversight of technologies used by criminal groups in Latin America.

Steven Grattan @sjgrattan Oct 7

233 arrests. 60,000 hectares of illegally cleared forest identified. More than 1,000 live animals recovered.

My latest for @AP on an Interpol crackdown targeting illegal mining, logging and wildlife trafficking across Latin America and the Caribbean:

apnews.com/article/interp…

apnews.com Interpol crackdown on illegal mining, logging and wildlife trafficking leads to 233 arrests Interpol has announced a major crackdown on environmental crime in Latin America and the Caribbean, leading to 233 arrests.

Steven Grattan @sjgrattan Sep 25

A landmark case over the rights of Indigenous peoples living in isolation in Peru’s Amazon has reached the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

The ruling could set an important precedent over their ancestral lands.

My latest for @AP:
apnews.com/article/indige…

apnews.com Peru faces human rights court over protections for isolated Indigenous peoples in Amazon Peru faces a regional human rights court over allegations it failed to protect isolated Indigenous peoples in the Amazon from logging and other activities.