Bram Ebus

Founder and Co-Director of Amazon Underworld

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Bram Ebus is a criminologist and investigative journalist based in Colombia. He specializes in natural resource conflicts, environmental crimes, and illicit economies. He has led several collaborative journalism investigations that have resulted in multiple awards, including two Online Journalism Awards and two Gabo Awards (Gabriel García Márquez Prize). Ebus is a Pulitzer Center alumni and also serves as a conflict and environment consultant for the International Crisis Group, where he covers security trends in the Amazon region.

The State of coca
Four unmarked white pickup trucks race through a patchwork landscape of bright-green plantations, blasting through mud puddles on winding jungle roads. As the convoy rounds a sharp corner, it ...
Amazon Underworld is back
Hello, it’s Amazon Underworld (again) — for those who don’t know us yet, we are an alliance of investigative journalists bringing together six media outlets across the same number ...