In this interview, Ehuana Yaira talks about the indivisible relationship between the Forest and the female body. The Yanomami artist and writer was the first member of her people to give a public talk in Europe, as part of the series “Rainforest is Female,” held at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
In the Xipaya Indigenous Territory, the Iriri River is suffering the effects of climate change, as its waters change color and its fish die. We Indigenous people are living in a time of uncertainty
While the forests of the outside world face a growing risk of desertification, our symbolic forests, the habitat of the mental creatures who populate the individual and collective unconscious, are turning to deserts before our eyes
Deputies and senators in the state of Amapá have organized a public hearing to try to discredit the environment ministry’s decision to block exploration in the Mouth of the Amazon River. They allowed no counter-argument or scientific debate and left it too late for indigenous communities to build a consensus. Instead they hammered home a political message and campaigned for pro-drilling Randolfe Rodrigues to replace Marina Silva as Minister of the Environment and Climate Change.
After gains by Bolsonaro's allies in the legislature and state governments, the only hope for the environment is for Lula to win the run-off for president
The pain of the leader Gamella before the multiplying deaths in the last months expresses the horror amidst indigenous territories. In September, there has been at least seven murders and one suicide