O dia em que homens brancos de terno negociaram o futuro dos Indígenas
Como foram as cinco horas da sessão de conciliação do inconciliável proposta pelo ministro Gilmar Mendes, com o apoio da maioria de seus colegas do STF, para decidir sobre o marco temporal
‘The Forest really is a perfect society’
Photographer Araquém Alcântara talks to SUMAÚMA about his 50 years covering the Amazon and developing a spiritual relationship with the Forest, that is now being destroyed
‘The Forest really is a perfect society’
Photographer Araquém Alcântara talks to SUMAÚMA about his 50 years covering the Amazon and developing a spiritual relationship with the Forest, that is now being destroyed
Love, joy and resistance: Satish Kumar’s advice to ‘seed-activists’ in Brazil
The Indian founder of Schumacher College shares common ground with Indigenous, black, antiracist, and feminist campaigners from the frontlines of the Amazon and São Paulo
Abandoned cats and dogs: the unforeseen legacy of expelling invaders from Apyterewa land
A campaign led by environmental agency staff, the National Animal Protection Forum, and volunteer services is looking for homes for pets left behind after illegal invaders were expelled from Brazil’s most heavily deforested Indigenous territory
Lula government efforts with Yanomami called ‘more propaganda than effective action’
Veteran aid worker Doctor Cláudio Esteves, who succeeded in reducing malaria in the 1990s, decries today’s humanitarian crisis and illegal mining in Yanomami territory despite a year of government operations to eradicate the problems
Edel Moraes: the defender of the forest peoples in Brasília
Afro-Indigenous, a cabocla, and a ribeirinha, the woman at the helm of one of the most important departments in the environment ministry recalls that under Bolsonaro the words 'traditional' and 'communities' couldn't even be used together. Now, reconstruction demands time. 'We're reforesting'
Helder Barbalho: the ‘King of the North’ uses talk of protecting the Amazon to grow his power
Even though it's his second time leading a state that is one of the worst offenders when it comes to deforestation, garimpo mining operations, and criminal fires, the political heir of the Barbalho clan, one of Brazil's most powerful oligarchies, is managing to sell the image of a ‘green governor’
“Our sexual identity doesn’t make us any less Indigenous”
Larissa Pankararu, who is openly gay, leads a new front in the struggle, both inside and outside Indigenous territories, as head of the LGBTQIAPN+ policy sector within the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples
The doctors punished for an indigenous health revolution
Deise Alves and Cláudio Esteves created a healthcare model that saved the Yanomami in the 1990s and early 2000s. But because they denounced illegal miners, their reputations have been destroyed and they are being asked to pay millions of reais to the government
