Is Lula going to let Marina fight for the environment alone?
Marina Silva, the minister who lends international ballast to the environmental agenda of the Workers’ Party, went to bed Tuesday night feeling victorious in the debate over the environmental license to explore for oil at the mouth of the Amazon, but the next day she saw her power undermined and was blitzed by a predatory Congress that represents the interests of denialist agribusiness. And worst of all, with the Brazilian president’s consent
If Lula sacrifices the environment, his government is over
Between heavy fire from a predatory Congress and friendly fire from the government leader in the Souse of Representatives, Marina Silva and the ministry she leads are suffering their first major attack. But it’s not just about Marina. It’s about our children and our existence on this planet-house.
To protect the forest, defend the defenders
Forest protectors and human rights activists in the State of Pará receive death threats and are humiliated by the very local authorities that are supposed to protect them
Femalize, indigenize, jaguarize: the indigenous language revolt
For 19 years, the annual Terra Livre encampment has been a fulcrum of Indigenous cultures and campaigns. This year, for the first time, activists in the movement are able to celebrate their presence in the centres of power and unveil a strategy for unifying politics in the form of an indigenous village. SUMAÚMA records this historic moment with pictures taken by our photographers Matheus Alves e Fernando Martinho
Demarcation now
The destroyers of the Amazon and of all the biomes are working together to keep their losses to a bare minimum under the new government and are already taking their first steps towards the 2026 election
Multinational invasion, threatened languages and other stories
A two-minute digest of the latest Amazon rainforest news.
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
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.
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
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
