Brazil: bonanza for timber exporters
Forest degradation nearly doubled in the Brazilian Amazon last year, rising from 4,946 square kilometers in 2018, to 9,167 square kilometers in...
Assédio missionário
Describes increasing threat to isolated tribes in the Amazon by evangelical missionaries - including those from American churches
Illegal mining poisons the Amazon
A new film by Jorge Bodansky analyzes the mercury contamination of Amazonian rivers as a result of illegal mining.
The indigenous midwives of the Amazon
In the villages of Tabatinga, Amazonas, Ticuna midwives work
according to ancestral traditions, honing their skills generation after
generation. However, they remain unrecognised by the state.
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Cercados por todos os lados
Part of the Sebastião Salgado na Amazônia series. Describes the multiple threats to the Marubos and the weakening of the infrastructure designed to protect...
Taxas de hepatite e malaria são uma ameaça constante
Part of the Sebastião Salgado na Amazônia series. Covers lack of essential services in Marubo areas and dangers they face to their health