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
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
In an interview with SUMAÚMA, the most prominent leader in the Indigenous struggle in Brazil warns his own people about the nefarious effects of mining and asks for societal awareness about global heating
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’
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
When they figured out that taking care of Indigenous health means taking care of the health of the forest, by impeding illegal mining, Deise Alves and Cláudio Esteves became the targets of political scheming, with bureaucracy serving as a weapon
When they figured out that taking care of Indigenous health means taking care of the health of the forest, by impeding illegal mining, Deise Alves and Cláudio Esteves became the targets of political scheming, with bureaucracy serving as a weapon
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
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.
This is life in Katõ Village, in the Munduruku Indigenous Territory, one of the lands hardest hit by illegal mining. If such mercury contamination were detected in a wealthy neighborhood in an urban area of Brazil, how would the State and the press react?
