In this interview, Ehuana Yaira talks about the indivisible relationship between the Forest and the female body. The Yanomami artist and writer was the first member of her people to give a public talk in Europe, as part of the series “Rainforest is Female,” held at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
In the Xipaya Indigenous Territory, the Iriri River is suffering the effects of climate change, as its waters change color and its fish die. We Indigenous people are living in a time of uncertainty
While the forests of the outside world face a growing risk of desertification, our symbolic forests, the habitat of the mental creatures who populate the individual and collective unconscious, are turning to deserts before our eyes
Afro-Indigenous, a cabocla, and a ribeirinha, the woman at the helm of one of the most important departments in the environment ministry recalls that under Bolsonaro the words 'traditional' and 'communities' couldn't even be used together. Now, reconstruction demands time. 'We're reforesting'
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
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 historical cut-off point rushed through the Chamber of Deputies is just one of the bill's atrocities. If a majority in the Senate votes for passage, it will produce large-scale destruction, redraw the map of Brazil, and compromise, perhaps irreversibly, the fight against global warming
President Lula must resist efforts in Congress to diminish environmental governance. The Chamber and the Senate are dominated not by conservatives, but by predators. They are on the wrong side of the war against nature.
Deputies and senators in the state of Amapá have organized a public hearing to try to discredit the environment ministry’s decision to block exploration in the Mouth of the Amazon River. They allowed no counter-argument or scientific debate and left it too late for indigenous communities to build a consensus. Instead they hammered home a political message and campaigned for pro-drilling Randolfe Rodrigues to replace Marina Silva as Minister of the Environment and Climate Change.
The Worker’s Party knew weeks ago that Congress would undercut the environmental area. But not only did the party abandon ministers. It also condoned changes that make the organizational structure of Lula’s administration look similar to Bolsonaro’s