Lula administration seeks ‘conciliatory solution’ for Waimiri Atroari genocide during military dictatorship
A report exclusively shown to SUMAÚMA shows chemical weapons were used in the massacre of eight villages in 1970 during the construction of highway BR-174. A retired colonel and Bolsonaro appointee has been appointed to a legal case against the federal government
SUMAÚMA receives an honorable mention in human rights journalism award for the story ‘Forest defenders demand more protection’
Flooded homes, food insecurity, restricted access to health care, and no prospects for the future—this is the undignified situation for people who defend the Amazon from powerful enemies while enduring death threats and receiving insufficient protection from official programs
The Munduruku woman indigenizing the world
Threatened with death in Brazil, Alessandra Korap is one of six activists from around the world whose work is recognized this Monday by the prestigious Goldman Prize for Environmentalism
Pro-mining mayor defies government and reality
The Amazonian municipality of Itaituba is a centre of illegal gold prospecting, which puts it firmly in the sights of the federal government's crackdown on polluting activity inside indigenous territory. The pro-mining mayor Valmir Climaco response has been to deny the existence of indigenous lands, despite hundreds of years of evidence to the contrary.
Fish nursery turned into cemetery by Belo Monte dam
The discovery of millions of dead eggs in one of the Amazon’s most biodiverse regions has left indigenous communities distraught and raised fears among scientists of eco-system breakdown.
The fallen kapok tree that touched an entire city
When this tree-person with a 200-year history fell shortly before dawn, it carried away memories of myriad lives, remembrances of a city that has forgotten it was built upon the body of nature
