Figures obtained by SUMAÚMA show the reduction in health monitoring started in the second year of the far-right administration, after officials learned that half of Yanomami young children were underweight.

The indigenous people face a dramatic impasse: if they denounce their genocide to the world, they run the risk of not finding happiness after death

After four years of destruction of the bonds of community and solidarity by the Bolsonaro government, the health collapse that has already killed 570 children under the age of five in the indigenous land unites Brazilians around a cause that is also a country

The careful steps journalism must take to avoid committing acts of violence while denouncing violence.

Figures obtained by SUMAÚMA show that during Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right government, the number of children under 5 years old who died from preventable causes increased 29% in Yanomami territory: 569 young indigenous children died in the last 4 years from diseases that are treatable

President Lula visits Roraima after dispatching taskforce to assess health crisis caused by illegal miners. Sumaúma reveals 570 preventable infants deaths under Bolsonaro.

Researchers of the Amazon region call for urgent alleviation of the socio-environmental impacts on the so-called Big Bend of the Xingu and ask that the families affected by the Belo Monte dam be treated decently

The Amazonian designer Sioduhi invited SUMAÚMA into his ateliers, in São Paulo and Rio Branco, to describe his journey from the Upper Rio Negro to the catwalks of São Paulo, and explain why he is returning to his ancestral origins

SUMAÚMA podcaster and creator of Pavulagem, the riverside dweller Maickson Serrão is taking part in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland wearing the hottest styles of Amazon forest

In an exclusive interview with SUMAÚMA, the newly elected congresswoman Célia Xakriabá tells how poetics will be an Indigenous weapon in parliament—and how the small but potent Indigenous caucus will take on the powerful ruralist lobby

A look behind the scenes at the events and alliances that allowed Sonia Guajajara to take power and make history

'In this era of the deliberate destruction of nature, rampant consumerism, unhealthy narcissism and the metaverse (or should it be murder-verse?), Joaquim was committed to forming readers and, while hardly rich, donated books to students and readers from humble backgrounds, something I witnessed on several occasions. He gave all of himself that he could, in a gesture of profound generosity, with affection was paramount'

President Lula and Minister of Justice suggest agribusinesses may have funded the insurrection. In testimonies to police, arrested coup-mongers reveal they received money from Bolsonaro supporters in Pará, Rondônia and Mato Grosso

From harrowing tales of forced contact to a failed capitalist scheme to build a resource-supplying city in the forest, here is a sample of cinematic Amazonian destruction and beauty

Even though the coup was not consummated, once again the right-wing extremists succeeded in delaying urgently-needed actions and debates in Brazil. The situation in the Amazon worsens everyday. In a statement, Lula suggested that the destroyers of the forest are involved in the January 8 coup attempt

In an exclusive article for Sumaúma, Marie Toussaint, deputy head of the Green Group in the European Parliament and an initiator of the recently approved law, details the bloc's groundbreaking new regulations on deforestation-free trade and how they might affect the Amazon

After the birth of a new government in Brazil, SUMAÚMA examines the baby steps and giant strides it has taken for the rainforest and its people

The recent pact between Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia raises hopes for tropical conservation but there are concerns it may be overly focussed on carbon credits. Sumaúma looks at the origins of this new front in nature diplomacy for clues about which way it will go

Known as the "Man of the Hole", he protected the Amazon for 26 years. And even after his death, a victory in Brazil’s Supreme Court will help preserve the forest in which he lived

A visit to the Awa Guajá, where people have died from sadness as well as guns since their land became a freight line for the world's biggest iron-ore mine

In an exclusive interview with SUMAÚMA, Yanomami political leader Davi Kopenawa expresses hope that Lula has become wiser about protecting the Amazon: “Before, he made a mistake, I don’t want him to deceive us again”

The recent killing of an indigenous woman began in 1973, when a road built by Brazil’s military dictatorship was carved through the forest

The children and adolescents of the city of Altamira, SUMAÚMA’s base and a region violently affected by the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant, tell Brazil’s president-elect Lula what they want from him

In the third part of our Nature in Power series, SUMAÚMA brings you voices for those that are never heard, although they are most affected by the planet’s dominant species

Continuing the series Nature in Power, SUMAÚMA amplifies the voice of the shaman Davi Kopenawa and other important leaders of one of the most extraordinary peoples on Earth, the Yanomami, who are today at high risk due to an invasion of gold miners into their territory

What the Amazon’s traditional populations, agroecological workers and leaders of social movements want from the president-elect

What do the peoples of the Amazon rainforest and other biomes want from the president-elect? These communities have demands that cannot wait.

Deliberate negligence by the Bolsonaro administration has left Brazil’s largest Indigenous territory vulnerable to invasion by twenty thousand illegal miners who are accused of raping women and the land.

Land reform activist Geraldo Magela de Almeida Filho was forced into hiding after being accused of a crime he did not commit. In a SUMAÚMA exclusive, he reveals how he adopted a new name and identity as a traveling salesman in the Amazon, before finally being vindicated in the courts

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