‘We run the risk of burning to death, of dying of hunger or thirst’
Indigenous leader Mara Xavante relates how the flames threatened her village in Mato Grosso, a state that suffered 19,964 fires in September
How military ideology shaped today’s Amazon
The authors of the Army's doctrine on the region see Indigenous people as ‘foreigners’ while calling for alliances with illegal miners and looking to China's dictatorship for solutions
The reinvented life of the man who confessed to killing Chico Mendes
In Medicilândia, Darci Alves Pereira adopted a new name, got rich, started an Evangelical church, and tried to enter politics through Jair Bolsonaro’s party
Ecuador: illegal mining in the Amazon finances drug gangs
Gold exploration has lined the pockets of the organized crime groups terrorizing the country, and contaminated rivers with mercury
Cookie compensation for indigenous people, and other stories
A two-minute round-up of the latest Amazon news
SUMAÚMA – the year in images
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
Bridges destroyed, acts of arson, death threats: Ibama’s battle to enforce the law in the Amazon
SUMAÚMA spent three days following the biggest operation ever carried out by Brazil’s environmental agency Ibama to remove cattle from the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Territory, home to isolated forest peoples
The identity of environmental offenders, the insects of the Amazon region and other stories
A selection of news stories about the rainforest, to be read in two minute
Video: two women joined by the war for the Amazon
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
