The children and adolescents of the city of Altamira, SUMAÚMA’s base and a region violently affected by the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant, tell Brazil’s president-elect Lula what they want from him
Brazil’s most iconic indigenous leader, the Kayapó learnt from the experience of Belo Monte that pressure must be put on white people’s governments – no matter the political party – so that nature and the native peoples are respected
In the third part of our Nature in Power series, SUMAÚMA brings you voices for those that are never heard, although they are most affected by the planet’s dominant species
A round-up of the best reporting on the Amazon rainforest
Continuing the series Nature in Power, SUMAÚMA amplifies the voice of the shaman Davi Kopenawa and other important leaders of one of the most extraordinary peoples on Earth, the Yanomami, who are today at high risk due to an invasion of gold miners into their territory
The defeat of Brazil’s fascist president Jair Bolsonaro represents a small window of possibility. To turn it into a horizon of hope, we must act not against Bolsonarism, but for a radical relationship with life.
A bullet-point summary of some of the best rainforest reporting on the web
What the Amazon’s traditional populations, agroecological workers and leaders of social movements want from the president-elect
What the peoples of the Amazon rainforest and other biomes want from the president-elect
An activist, who left Altamira to campaign in Belém, reveals four tactics to convince undecided voter to choose Lula