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ReXistence —

“White people, your world makes me very sad”

In this interview, Ehuana Yaira talks about the indivisible relationship between the Forest and the female body. The Yanomami artist and writer was the first member of her people to give a public talk in Europe, as part of the series “Rainforest is Female,” held at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona

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The river in my village turned green – I was horrified to discover why

In the Xipaya Indigenous Territory, the Iriri River is suffering the effects of climate change, as its waters change color and its fish die. We Indigenous people are living in a time of uncertainty

Thought Seeding —

Die a little each day

While the forests of the outside world face a growing risk of desertification, our symbolic forests, the habitat of the mental creatures who populate the individual and collective unconscious, are turning to deserts before our eyes

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Our Voice —

SUMAÚMA – the year in images

Jonathan Watts

13 September 2023

On the one-year anniversary of our Amazon-centred news community, our co-founder Jonathan Watts shares some of his favourite images from a year of enormous - and mostly positive change - that you dear readers helped to make possible

ReXistence —

Video: two women joined by the war for the Amazon

SUMAÚMA staff

7 June 2023

SUMAÚMA brought together Bruna e Alê, the widows of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, to talk about life after losing their husbands in a brutal and still unpunished murder

Our Voice —

Don’t talk to us about ‘governability.’ That excuse is bathed in blood

Eliane Brum ,

Xingu River, Altamira, the Amazon ,

7 June 2023

President Lula must resist efforts in Congress to diminish environmental governance. The Chamber and the Senate are dominated not by conservatives, but by predators. They are on the wrong side of the war against nature.

Our Voice —

Don’t talk to us about ‘governability.’ That excuse is bathed in blood

SUMAÚMA

7 June 2023

President Lula must resist efforts in Congress to diminish environmental governance. The Chamber and the Senate are dominated not by conservatives, but by predators. They are on the wrong side of the war against nature.

ReXistence —

Bia and Alê: “We’re not going to let Bruno and Dom die”

Verónica Goyzueta ,

Cerrado, Brasília ,

4 June 2023

Beatriz Matos and Alessandra Sampaio met to talk about living and fighting for life one year after the brutal murders of their husbands

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Bruno’s exemplary achievements with indigenous communities must be respected

Beto Marubo ,

Fabrício Amorim ,

Helena Palmquist ,

2 June 2023

As the one-year mourning period comes to an end in Javari Valley villages, Beto Marubo fears Bruno Pereira's work will be undermined by Congress

Our Voice —

Nature is climate: We forget that at our peril

SUMAÚMA

28 February 2023

The disaster in São Paulo reminds us that we must reinforce the Amazon rainforest and other natural pillars that ‘hold up the sky'

ReXistence —

Fighting for justice for Bruno Pereira with power and hope

Eliane Brum ,

Xingu River, Altamira, the Amazon ,

26 February 2023

For the first time since her husband was murdered, Beatriz Matos returned to the Javari Valley on Monday. this time as head of the department responsible for uncontacted peoples. In this exclusive interview with Sumaúma, Beatriz says she blames Bruno's murder on the negligence of former president Jair Bolsonaro and his appointees, who allowed organised crime to proliferate in the region.

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