Amazon Summit: forest peoples prevent government backsliding
By bringing nearly 30,000 people to Belém, social movements and leaders of traditional populations demonstrated their power of organization and an awareness of the impacts of climate change. They plan to be stronger still by the time of COP-30 in 2025
Criminal gold, açaí price surge and other stories
A two-minute digest of Amazon news stories
Raoni walked up the ramp with Lula in Brasília but couldn’t get past the door in Belém
President Lula strung the Kayapó elder along, leaving him waiting for five hours and ultimately failing to show, instead sending a few cabinet ministers to receive Raoni in a backroom cafeteria
The threat from the so-called Ferrogrão, the 1988 Constitution in modern tupi and other stories
A selection of news stories about the Amazon news to be read in two minutes
Meat from indigenous lands for sale in the supermarket, killifish from Xingu river, and other stories
A selection of news stories about the rainforest to be read in two minutes
‘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
“In mining camps, what’s between your legs isn’t yours—it has to make money”
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.
Narco-miners challenge government in Yanomami territory
In a single week, at least 14 people were murdered inside the indigenous territory, including a member of Brazil’s largest criminal organization – First Capital Command (PCC). In retaliation, the faction has sent out a message telling its members to target police and federal agents.
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
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
