The Amazon’s most famous trees are not producing fruit this year due to devastating drought and the climate crisis. In this graphic depiction, a tree ‘talks’ to an agouti about the impact on local people



















Report, text and cartoonist: Pablito Aguiar
Editing: Eliane Brum and Viviane Zandonadi
Art Editor: Cacao Sousa
Sources consulted: Raquel Rodrigues dos Santos, professora do Instituto Amazônico de Agriculturas Familiares na Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA); Kwai Asurini, cacique of Ita-Aka Village; Francisco de Assis Porto de Oliveira, Ribeirinho and president of the Terra do Meio Network) and Alexander Arévalo, PhD in ecology in biology
Fact-checker: Plínio Lopes
Proofreader (Portuguese): Valquíria Della Pozza
Spanish translation: Meritxell Almarza
English translation: Sarah J. Johnson
Copyediting and finishing: Natália Chagas
Editorial workflow: Viviane Zandonadi
Editor-in-chief: Talita Bedinelli
Editorial director: Eliane Brum