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
Belo Monte: peoples of the Volta Grande region call on Ibama to release the Xingu River
'Piracema Hydrogram,' an animation made in partnership with Indigenous peoples and ribeirinhos, shows how the hydroelectric plant’s sequester of 70% of the river's water has turned life into death in one of the Amazon's most biodiverse regions
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
‘No argument, no logic’ : Experts stunned by flimsy basis for Belo Monte hydrograph
At a seminar for senior government officials in Brasilia, researchers finally reveal the weak study on which the dam's operator Norte Energia has based its quota of 8,000 cubic meters per second for nature. They say this is dangerously inadequate for the important ecosystem and way of life of people who live on the river's 'Big Bend'.
Fish nursery turned into cemetery by Belo Monte dam
The discovery of millions of dead eggs in one of the Amazon’s most biodiverse regions has left indigenous communities distraught and raised fears among scientists of eco-system breakdown.
Lula, listen to the
non-human peoples
In the third part of our Nature in Power series, SUMAÚMA brings you voices for those that are never heard, although they are most affected by the planet’s dominant species
