SUMAÚMA receives an honorable mention in human rights journalism award for the story ‘Forest defenders demand more protection’
Flooded homes, food insecurity, restricted access to health care, and no prospects for the future—this is the undignified situation for people who defend the Amazon from powerful enemies while enduring death threats and receiving insufficient protection from official programs
In the Amazonian language of struggle, Dorothy Stang is a jaguar and a saint
18 years after her assassination in Anapu on February 12, 2005, missionary is becoming both a martyr and an encantada in the forest
‘To defend the Amazon, you have to defend those who live in it’
Maickson Serrão, aka Pavulagem, shares his experience of the World Economic Forum, addressing the audience in Davos, meeting Marina Silva, and mingling with attendees: 'One person talked to me about Bluetooth phones as if he were showing me a mirror 500 years ago’
Justice for the Yanomami people
Our wish is that the community of SUMAÚMA readers find ways to demand the trial of Jair Bolsonaro and his ministers
Yanomami Genocide spawns Brazil’s first humanitarian movement for reconstruction
After four years of destruction of the bonds of community and solidarity by the Bolsonaro government, the health collapse that has already killed 570 children under the age of five in the indigenous land unites Brazilians around a cause that is also a country
Ten films to (start to) understand the Amazon
From harrowing tales of forced contact to a failed capitalist scheme to build a resource-supplying city in the forest, here is a sample of cinematic Amazonian destruction and beauty
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
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The European Union creates a new tool to protect forests from its consumers
In an exclusive article for Sumaúma, Marie Toussaint, deputy head of the Green Group in the European Parliament and an initiator of the recently approved law, details the bloc's groundbreaking new regulations on deforestation-free trade and how they might affect the Amazon
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
Fugitive for 17 years: The astonishing story of the man who reported the murder of Dorothy Stang
Land reform activist Geraldo Magela de Almeida Filho was forced into hiding after being accused of a crime he did not commit. In a SUMAÚMA exclusive, he reveals how he adopted a new name and identity as a traveling salesman in the Amazon, before finally being vindicated in the courts
