Constance Malleret

1. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Constance Malleret

   Humpbacks return to Rio: the whales are back from the brink of extinction – but will tourism help or hinder? (opens the original)

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   The gigantic aquatic acrobats are exciting Brazil’s tourists as numbers recover from whaling. But some marine biologists question how booming tourism and conservation can coexist The anticipation is palpable onboard the Boaventura II as the yacht sets off from Rio de Janeiro at sunrise. Once beyond the Cagarras Islands, rocky outcrops just three miles off Ipanema beach, the group gathers at the bow and starts scanning the horizon. They do not have to wait long. “Eleven o’clock!” someone

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2. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Constance Malleret

   It cost £2.1bn to divert a river in Brazil’s outback. So where has all the water gone? (opens the original)

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   Despite official claims that the São Francisco River project supplies 12m people, many of those who had to make way for its construction in 2007 still have no water at all A concrete canal cutting through the Caatinga scrubland feeds a surface reservoir two and a half miles from Maria de Fátima Ferreira da Silva’s home in rural Brazil. The canal passes Sertânia and continues until it reaches Monteiro, the next town along, where it spills its precious cargo into the bed of the Paraíba River

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