
Biography
Lina Sagaral Reyes is an award-winning environmental reporter who writes about the intersection between gender, the environment, climate change, culture, the arts, and mental health. She is based in Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental in Mindanao.
In 1998 she received the Jaime V. Ongpin Award for Investigative Journalism (1998) for an expose on sand dredging to accommodate an international resort. In 2000 she received the the National Science and Technology Journalism Grand Prize for an investigation into an algal bloom in Macajalar Bay, and in 2020 her in-depth probe into corporate pineapple farms and their questionable carbon-negative claims (https://mindanaogoldstardaily.com/food-giants-carbon-negative-claims-being-questioned/) won her the Globe Media Excellence Awards.