The seven-year-old girl who fears being burned alive by ‘bad men’
Violence persists at the Dorothy Stang Resettlement, in Anapu, in the Brazilian Amazon, 19 years after the missionary's murder. Landgrabbers are trying to drive residents away by attacking the school, which has been burned down twice
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Quando o coração amazônico de Osvalinda Pereira parou de bater
A vida, as lutas e os afetos da defensora que se dedicou a denunciar a ação ilegal de grileiros e madeireiros na Terra do Meio, no Pará, apesar de todas as ameaças de morte
Norwegian and French companies turn Barcarena into a city of environmental disasters
The Amazonian municipality has had nearly 30 accidents in two decades, 16 of them connected to Norway’s Norsk Hydro and France’s Imerys, and residents fear contamination from heavy metals and a 636% spike in cancer cases from 2000 to 2022
Starlink: ‘Elon Musk’s internet’ brings euphoria and fear to the Amazon
Indigenous peoples and traditional communities enjoy the advantages of the technology that is making rapid inroads into the region, while trying to tighten security and raise awareness about the risks. The government is studying ways to block Starlink signals in illegal mining areas
A plural Biennial: ‘Amazons means all of this: a shout, a chant, weeping, sacredness’
Sandra Benites talks about the collective process of curating the exhibit, which sought to ‘set aside this exotic view of the Amazon, as an untouchable thing’ to show the region's people and how it is ‘simmering’
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
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.
Yanomami Genocide spawns Brazil’s first humanitarian movement for reconstruction
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
Tanaru’s brave resistance overcomes death
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
Maial, descendant of the political warriors of the Kayapo, fights for a seat in Congress
Daughter of Paulinho Paiakan, niece of Tuire and great-niece of Chief Raoni, the congressional candidate travels the state of Pará campaigning for Brazil’s indigenous peoples
