Meet 'Voices from the South', The Conversation Brazil's podcast on science and climate in Brazil and Australia
The podcast was created in partnership with UFPA to showcase what scientists in Brazil and Australia are doing to mitigate the impacts of climate change
It was quite a effort: six months of work, researches in two countries, trips to the Amazon and the interior of Minas Gerais, and dozens of interviews with Brazilian and Australian researchers — both academics and/or owners of the ancestral knowledge of Indigenous peoples.
This is a very brief summary of the adventure that our team of journalists, led by Environment Editor Luciana Julião, undertook to produce "Voices from the South", The Conversation Brazil's first podcast, made in collaboration with the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), funding from the Council on Australia Latin America Relations (COALAR), and strategic consulting from The Conversation Australia.
"Voices from the South" emerged from the natural connection between The Conversation Brazil and Australia, the country where our scientific dissemination project through collaborative journalism, carried out in direct partnership with scientists, began 14 years ago. This connection is also evident in the historical characteristics of Brazil and Australia — relatively young continental nations in the Southern Hemisphere that share similar colonial legacies, possess immense ecosystem diversity, boast a wealth of natural resources (especially in agriculture, livestock, and mining), and have great potential for renewable energy production.
"With all these similarities, what are scientists in Brazil and Australia doing now to try to mitigate the effects of climate change, and what can one country teach the other in this process? It was in an attempt to answer those questions that we went into the field to make 'Voices from the South', says Luciana Julião.
And what a field: to conduct the research, Luciana Julião and reporters Luciana Colodete, in Brazil, and Fernando Vives, in Australia, embarked on months of interviews with academics and indigenous people to uncover ongoing environmental projects in both countries, in the areas of forest management, fire management, ocean protection, mining, agriculture and livestock, and renewable energy.
"There were about 40 hours of interviews with more than 20 scientists and researchers in both countries", says the project coordinator, who spent several weeks in the interior of Pará and in the mining regions of Minas Gerais to visit landmark environmental initiatives and interview those responsible for them. Meanwhile, reporter Fernando Vives, a Brazilian who has lived in Australia for 20 years, scoured universities and environmental research centers to gather examples from there.
The production also benefited from logistical and content coproduction by researchers and technical staff from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), led by Professor Maria Ataide Malcher of the Center for Innovation and Technologies Applied to Teaching and Extension.
"Voices from the South" is available directly here on The Conversation's website or on major audio platforms. Here is the complete podcast:
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