On the ground, it’s harder
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
Opinion
—
A plea to Lula: Staunch blood gold
The new president should revoke dubiously-enacted legal clauses that facilitate the purchase of gold criminally extracted from indigenous lands. These flawed legislation contributes to a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe
“Our lives are over”: The Yanomami villages devastated by mining
Residents of three regions invaded by criminal gold prospectors reveal how their communities have been destroyed by contamination, violence and prostitution. Their accounts highlight the disruption caused by the state's failure of care.
Government declares emergency in Yanomami territory
President Lula visits Roraima after dispatching taskforce to assess health crisis caused by illegal miners. Sumaúma reveals 570 preventable infants deaths under Bolsonaro.
Lula 3: A fresh start for the Amazon?
After the birth of a new government in Brazil, SUMAÚMA examines the baby steps and giant strides it has taken for the rainforest and its people
The New Year resolutions Lula should make for the Amazon
When Bolsonaro leaves office on New Year's Eve, the new president will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to prevent the Amazon from slipping past the point of no return. Lula's transition team has ambitious plans, but with more outside help SUMAÚMA believes they could and should go further
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
What we are – and what we could be
In less than three months, SUMAÚMA has published 50 news articles, features, videos and comic strips and is getting ready to do even more in 2023
Lula, listen to
the new generation
The children and adolescents of the city of Altamira, SUMAÚMA’s base and a region violently affected by the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant, tell Brazil’s president-elect Lula what they want from him
In the name of
non-humans
Why our journalism advocates the inclusion of other species in democracy
