Criminal gold, açaí price surge and other stories
A two-minute digest of Amazon news stories
Carbon Cowboys: Pará’s Public Defender accuses local government of land theft
A lawsuit points to misappropriation of public areas in five state agroextractive settlements, with involvement by companies and the city hall
Lula administration seeks ‘conciliatory solution’ for Waimiri Atroari genocide during military dictatorship
A report exclusively shown to SUMAÚMA shows chemical weapons were used in the massacre of eight villages in 1970 during the construction of highway BR-174. A retired colonel and Bolsonaro appointee has been appointed to a legal case against the federal government
‘Carbon cowboys’ ride into an Amazonian storm
A SUMAÚMA investigation reveals carbon credit companies are trying to secure deals on protected and disputed public lands, including indigenous territories, prompting concerns about ‘green land grabs.’ While the money from carbon credit deals can bring benefits, public prosecutors have accused some agents of contract abuses in their dealings with forest populations. Against this backdrop, there is a growing clamour for the government to establish ground rules
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
The Xokleng’s brutal origins of the historic cut-off point debate
SUMAÚMA visited the native peoples of the Ibirama-Laklãnõ territory, the center of the legal case being judged by the Federal Supreme Court. They have been victims of extermination campaigns for hundreds of years. Now once again they are threatened.
Bia and Alê: “We’re not going to let Bruno and Dom die”
Beatriz Matos and Alessandra Sampaio met to talk about living and fighting for life one year after the brutal murders of their husbands
Violence against schools is an attack on society
We must learn from Brazil’s native peoples and their sense of community, so we can make coexistence part of the curriculum
UK Company Mining in Amazon without land agency consent
Serabi Gold is operating an Amazonian mine before completing a consent process with indigenous communities and without the approval of the land agency Incra, which has designated the plot for the sustainable settlement Terra Nossa
“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.
