Novo Progresso: the worst of the worst for Amazon deforestation
In the town that led Brazil’s infamous Fire Day, land thieves flex their muscles and set the tone for the next elections, pressuring Congress, the Judiciary, and the Lula administration to sever and privatize a chunk of Jamanxim National Forest twice the area of São Paulo city
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
Dead woman’s tide: Oil fears lap along Amazon coast
The northern region waits anxiously to see whether Petrobras will be awarded a license for the FZA-M-59 block, which could open the way for oil drilling in areas where there is a heightened risk of an oil spill reaching mangrove forests
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A Beiradeira que venceu o grilador
A Seringueira entortada aos beijos de Lausminda de Jesus foi um dos marcos para que a comunidade Beiradeira de Montanha e Mangabal, no Tapajós, provasse sua existência no território
What happened after the Arara of Cachoeira Seca met their first ‘white’ people?
SUMAÚMA is releasing unpublished historical records by photographer and anthropologist Milton Guran, who in 1987 captured the first images of this then isolated Indigenous people living in Pará state. In 2018, he returned to their home in the rainforest, where he encountered 'an advanced process of ethnocide'
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Quando o coração amazônico de Osvalinda Pereira parou de bater
A vida, as lutas e os afetos da defensora que se dedicou a denunciar a ação ilegal de grileiros e madeireiros na Terra do Meio, no Pará, apesar de todas as ameaças de morte
Eight thousand Indigenous people occupy Brasília, only to be betrayed by men in suits
Lula is struggling to demarcate territories and there are signs of a retreat from a Supreme Court under attack from the most predatory Congress since Brazil's redemocratization
The Indigenous Village setting up in Brazil’s capital is fighting to be heard
At the 2024 Free Land Camp, which celebrated 20 years of mobilization, around 8,000 members of over 200 Indigenous peoples stayed together over five days in Brasília to debate the topics most relevant to the movement and their future
After floods and destruction, Brasiléia plans to move
An Amazonian border city already impacted substantially by drug trafficking fears it will not withstand the increasingly frequent climate disasters
