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
The indigenous cry: “No democracy without demarcation”
Organizations and ethnic groups from all over Brazil have chosen this slogan for the most important annual gathering of indigenous people, the ATL, at which they will be demanding that their lands be recognized and respected
UK Company Mining in Amazon without land agency consent
Serabi Gold is operating an Amazonian mine before completing a consent process with indigenous communities and without the approval of the land agency Incra, which has designated the plot for the sustainable settlement Terra Nossa
Right wing and agribusiness flock to former communist in Altamira
Aldo Rebelo, a former ally of Workers’ Party presidents Lula and Dilma Rousseff, now mixes with Bolsonaro supporters and landgrabbers. He is promoting an agricultural-military political agenda in one of the epicenters of the destruction of the Amazon forest
‘Do you think the government controls this kind of people?’
Competing for Bolsonaro’s supporters in the Amazon, former communist Aldo Rebelo is touring the north of the country arguing in favor of a project for Brazil that focuses on the military and the agribusiness sector
The ruined lives of the doctors who saved the Yanomami
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
Tracing gold, healing forests and other Amazon news
A two-minute round-up of the latest Amazon news
What will the agribusiness lobby do next?
Anthropologist Caio Pompeia, explains how Brazil’s leading agriculture industry think tank strengthened the political influence of the country’s farming sector and how it is planning to respond to the election of Lula.
For a solution to the world water crisis, look to the Amazon
Stronger indigenous rights, greater protection of headwaters and fewer dams should be part of any global deal on water.
‘No argument, no logic’ : Experts stunned by flimsy basis for Belo Monte hydrograph
At a seminar for senior government officials in Brasilia, researchers finally reveal the weak study on which the dam's operator Norte Energia has based its quota of 8,000 cubic meters per second for nature. They say this is dangerously inadequate for the important ecosystem and way of life of people who live on the river's 'Big Bend'.
