QUEM FALA DE MANGUEZAL? LEVANTAMENTO DE DADOS NOS JORNAIS FOLHA DE S.PAULO E BRASIL DE FATO

Who is talking about mangroves? Data collection from the newspapers "FOLHA DE S.PAULO" and "BRASIL DE FATO"

Abstract

Mangroves are located in intertidal plains with sensitive and peculiar ecological dynamics, which results in ecosystem services, such as provision of food and protection of coastal areas. Despite its importance, Brazil is one of the hotspots of mangrove loss. In this context, media can shape the popular imaginary and intensify, maintain or oppose to issues involving mangroves. A way of doing that is listening or not to the many voices involved. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyze the newspaper’s publications source in which mangrove is central in the framework. We collected articles from the newspapers Brasil de Fato and Folha de S.Paulo published in 2020 and selected those which met the research objective. Subsequently, we classified their included sources and quotes. We delimited 04 articles, in which we found 27 quotes from 09 different sources. We grouped them into Specialized, Institucional, Official and Referencial. While Brasil de Fato included a majority of Institutional sources, Folha de S.Paulo showed a balance between them, but presented some of them as generic sources, as “specialists” and “environmentalists”. No newspaper consulted traditional communities associated to mangroves. In the criteria of this paper, most of the Folha de S.Paulo citations aimed to highlight the ecological consequences of the loss of mangroves, while Brasil de Fato prioritized criticizing the attempt to revoke CONAMA Resolution 303/2002. All the articles analyzed mentioned the Resolution, a fact that is justified by the temporal and thematic scope of this paper. Even so, the results obtained reinforce the journalistic tendency to report the environment more strongly when there are catastrophic events involving it.