No water to point the way: the great drying of the Amazon’s rivers
In a special edition, Rádio Sumaúma shows how the peoples most affected by the climate crisis are those living in the forest
Timber companies use new ruse to deforest the Amazon
Associations are suspected of coopting traditional communities to continue destroying the forest by crafting supposedly legal operations wrapped in the name of 'management plans'
Belo Monte: forest and academia join to save Xingu
An alliance of traditional communities, Indigenous researchers and university scientists aims to produce reliable data to counter information presented by Norte Energia on the impacts of the hydroelectric plant
The Amazon decolonizes its past
LiDAR surveillance by plane and the knowledge of traditional populations is helping Amazon archeologists to reconstruct the history of the human occupation of the rainforest, planted in part by original peoples but deemed uninhabited by governments in order to justify invasions and clearance
How war is waged on Brazil’s most deforested Indigenous territory
In just thirty-five years, the Apyterewa-Parakanã peoples have seen their territory invaded, the forest cut down for illegal mahogany, and the conversion of this area to pastureland for 60,000 head of cattle – the on-going expulsion of the invaders will indicate the fate of the Amazon
The non-indigenous problem
Capitalism seems eager to kill everything, down to the very last jaguar. To burn everything, down to the very last macaw. To topple everything, down to the very last kapok
The shadows cast by the Supreme Court’s historic cut-off point ruling
Xokleng elders and youth, the 'people of the sun,' are celebrating the outcome of the ruling against the legal thesis. SUMAÚMA was there to see reaction from older members, who remembered past struggles, while also explaining how the high court's decision on land indemnifications could impact the future
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The Amazon of Fungi
A search for beings that sustain the Earth in a forest nearing the point of no return
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On the fire frontline in Bolivia
Following a team of indigenous volunteer firefighters as they battle a blaze for 30 days and nights.
Historic cut-off ruling stirs Indigenous peoples to lobby inside Brasília’s palaces
Accompanied by lawyers and armed with technical arguments, the movement's leaders have begun making regular visits to Supreme Court justices to influence public debate and the outcome of the trial affecting the future of the original peoples.
