Police probe links between Amazon destroyers and insurrectionists
President Lula and Minister of Justice suggest agribusinesses may have funded the insurrection. In testimonies to police, arrested coup-mongers reveal they received money from Bolsonaro supporters in Pará, Rondônia and Mato Grosso
Amazon impacts Tibet, funding plans for rainforest and more…
A round-up of the best reporting on the Amazon rainforest
Ten films to (start to) understand the Amazon
From harrowing tales of forced contact to a failed capitalist scheme to build a resource-supplying city in the forest, here is a sample of cinematic Amazonian destruction and beauty
Lula 3: A fresh start for the Amazon?
After the birth of a new government in Brazil, SUMAÚMA examines the baby steps and giant strides it has taken for the rainforest and its people
Ten books to (start to) get to know the Amazon
Works that address important topics and might encourage the reader to delve deeper into primary sources and reference books
The New Year resolutions Lula should make for the Amazon
When Bolsonaro leaves office on New Year's Eve, the new president will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to prevent the Amazon from slipping past the point of no return. Lula's transition team has ambitious plans, but with more outside help SUMAÚMA believes they could and should go further
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The European Union creates a new tool to protect forests from its consumers
In an exclusive article for Sumaúma, Marie Toussaint, deputy head of the Green Group in the European Parliament and an initiator of the recently approved law, details the bloc's groundbreaking new regulations on deforestation-free trade and how they might affect the Amazon
The biggest little bookshop in the world
The most complete collection of books on the Amazon is in a newsstand in Manaus
“Lula, we don’t want to cry because people die”
Women from the Rokoari community, in the Yanomami Indigenous Land, appeal to the president-elect to halt the humanitarian catastrophe caused by illegal mining
Gold and Beef: Ronaldo’s recipe for disaster
Former Brazil striker claims he ate gold leaf steak with current members of the national team to inspire people, but his choice could hardly have been worse
