Multinational invasion, threatened languages and other stories
A two-minute digest of the latest Amazon rainforest news.
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 Munduruku woman indigenizing the world
Threatened with death in Brazil, Alessandra Korap is one of six activists from around the world whose work is recognized this Monday by the prestigious Goldman Prize for Environmentalism
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
Lula faces civil society resistance to Amazon oil exploration
Eighty organizations have written to government ministers and public officials warning about the risks of exploration and the need to establish sound technical and scientific precautions to avoid catastrophe.
‘With each passing year, climate events grow more extreme.’
A Rio Branco--based journalist who covers the impact of global heating, reports on his personal distress when the São Francisco, a tributary of the Acre River, flooded his street and home last month
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
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
“Our lives are over”: The Yanomami villages devastated by mining
Residents of three regions invaded by criminal gold prospectors reveal how their communities have been destroyed by contamination, violence and prostitution. Their accounts highlight the disruption caused by the state's failure of care.
Fish nursery turned into cemetery by Belo Monte dam
The discovery of millions of dead eggs in one of the Amazon’s most biodiverse regions has left indigenous communities distraught and raised fears among scientists of eco-system breakdown.
