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
How the Workers’ Party embraced the “Centrão” and left Sonia and Marina adrift
The Worker’s Party knew weeks ago that Congress would undercut the environmental area. But not only did the party abandon ministers. It also condoned changes that make the organizational structure of Lula’s administration look similar to Bolsonaro’s
Choquei, Parente!
Brazil has an
indigenous minister
A look behind the scenes at the events and alliances that allowed Sonia Guajajara to take power and make history
“Lula, we don’t want to cry because people die”
Women from the Rokoari community, in the Yanomami Indigenous Land, appeal to the president-elect to halt the humanitarian catastrophe caused by illegal mining
Raoni wants to
meet with Lula
Brazil's most iconic indigenous leader, the Kayapó learnt from the experience of Belo Monte that pressure must be put on white people's governments - no matter the political party - so that nature and the native peoples are respected
‘For me, the term climate change means the revenge of the Earth’
In an exclusive interview with SUMAÚMA, Yanomami political leader Davi Kopenawa expresses hope that Lula has become wiser about protecting the Amazon: “Before, he made a mistake, I don’t want him to deceive us again”
Barbe-coup in Bolsonaroland
Frontline report from a churrasco protest inside the Bolsonarist hotbed of Altamira, where supporters want the army to overturn the election result
After the catastrophe comes the difficult part: restoring life.
All of us in the Sumaúma community can help to write this new chapter in the history of Brazil
To cleanse ourselves of Bolsonaro, we must fight like a forest
The defeat of Brazil’s fascist president represents a window of possibility. To turn it into a horizon of hope, we must act not against Bolsonarism, but for a radical relationship with life
Amazon Fund to resume, Lula at COP27 and Belo Monte in the headlines again
A bullet-point summary of some of the best rainforest reporting on the web
