Amazon needs to prepare for unusual heat and drought as the fire season approaches

Flooded homes, food insecurity, restricted access to health care, and no prospects for the future—this is the undignified situation for people who defend the Amazon from powerful enemies while enduring death threats and receiving insufficient protection from official programs

SUMAÚMA publishes an exclusive story of a Venezuelan woman who came to Brazil at the age of twenty-seven after experiencing continuous violence in her home country. She spent time in 2021 and 2022 as a prostitute in five mining encampments in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory. Her memories and drawings, recorded in small notebooks, give voice to the stories of many women who balance the thin line between money and brutality.