What we are – and what we could be
In less than three months, SUMAÚMA has published 50 news articles, features, videos and comic strips and is getting ready to do even more in 2023
Lula, listen to
the new generation
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
Raoni wants to
meet with Lula
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
Deforestation surges, EU-US countermeasures and more…
A round-up of the best reporting on the Amazon rainforest
Fugitive for 17 years: The astonishing story of the man who reported the murder of Dorothy Stang
Land reform activist Geraldo Magela de Almeida Filho was forced into hiding after being accused of a crime he did not commit. In a SUMAÚMA exclusive, he reveals how he adopted a new name and identity as a traveling salesman in the Amazon, before finally being vindicated in the courts
Exclusive: Bolsonaro government set to erase indigenous communities from 2022 Census
Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics lacks resources to survey three indigenous areas, which will impact government policies for a decade
Nature or Money? A look behind new biodiversity superpower pact
The recent pact between Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia raises hopes for tropical conservation but there are concerns it may be overly focussed on carbon credits. Sumaúma looks at the origins of this new front in nature diplomacy for clues about which way it will go
Tanaru’s brave resistance overcomes death
Known as the 'Man of the Hole', he protected the Amazon for 26 years. And even after his death, a victory in Brazil’s Supreme Court will help preserve the forest in which he lived
Vale’s railway
to oblivion
A visit to the Awa Guajá, where people have died from sadness as well as guns since their land became a freight line for the world's biggest iron-ore mine
‘For me, the term climate change means the revenge of the Earth’
In an exclusive interview with SUMAÚMA, Yanomami political leader Davi Kopenawa expresses hope that Lula has become wiser about protecting the Amazon: “Before, he made a mistake, I don’t want him to deceive us again”
