Jonathan Watts

Jonathan Watts is an author and journalist based in the Amazon rainforest. He is global environment editor for The Guardian and founder of the Rainforest Journalism Fund and Sumaúma.com.

A veteran foreign correspondent previously based in Tokyo, Beijing, and Rio de Janeiro, Jonathan covered two tsunamis, three earthquakes, one cyclone, two bombings, a G8 conference, two world cups, and three Olympics and interviewed numerous state leaders. He switched to full time environmental reporting while writing the eco-travelogue, When a Billion Chinese Jump. He more recently wrote a biography of the brilliant natural scientist who conceived the Gaia Theory of the Earth as a living organism: The Many Lives of James Lovelock.