The forest has a plan to save the planet from the climate crisis
At a recent gathering in the Bolivian Amazon, a group of Indigenous, Ribeirinho, Quilombola, and Pan-Amazonian activists drew up an alternative treaty to the failed COP negotiations
In 2024, life itself is up for vote
The killers of the forest and its defenders want more political power. Unless the former can be stopped at the upcoming municipal elections, it won't be just the Amazon that suffers
‘Amateur management’ behind failure that has cost 308 Yanomami lives
How the Brazilian government spent $200 million and mobilized nearly 2,000 healthcare workers, yet wasted a year in addressing the healthcare crisis in the Indigenous land
The Amazon decolonizes its past
LiDAR surveillance by plane and the knowledge of traditional populations is helping Amazon archeologists to reconstruct the history of the human occupation of the rainforest, planted in part by original peoples but deemed uninhabited by governments in order to justify invasions and clearance
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
In shamans’ dreams, the forest is crying
Morzaniel Ɨramari, the first Yanomami filmmaker, will shortly release 'Mãri hi: The Tree of Dream', a portrait of how messages from the forest reach the shamans of a people whose lives have been jeopardized by mining activities over the last ten years
Exclusive: Bolsonaro government knew of Yanomami crisis in 2020
A document sent to the Ministry of Health reported violence, illness, drugs and alcohol in the village of Kayanau. The government failed to respond.
“Our lives are over”: The Yanomami villages devastated by mining
Residents of three regions invaded by criminal gold prospectors reveal how their communities have been destroyed by contamination, violence and prostitution. Their accounts highlight the disruption caused by the state's failure of care.
The struggle to retake Yanomami territory from criminal control
After four years of malign negligence by the Bolsonaro government, the territory is experiencing a continual removal of dead, or extremely sick, Indigenous people, and a still uncertain plan to expel thousands of illegal, heavily armed, miners
Exclusive: Bolsonaro government cut Yanomami health monitoring after record infant malnourishment
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.
