Opinion
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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
Census takers under fire over neglect of indigenous groups
Institute of Geography and Statistics is given five days to explain why no helicopters have been procured to survey three remote areas, risking the omission of 15,000 people
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
