Marcos Colon

Nov 5, 2024 | lab.org.uk | Marcos Colon

As the world confronts overlapping crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and social inequality, we must recognize the Amazon as a battleground where these struggles converge. Allowing its continued destruction under a future Trump administration will not just be a moral failure, but an ecological catastrophe that will reverberate for generations.

Sep 25, 2024 | lab.org.uk | Edmar Barros |Marcos Colon

Photojournalist Edmar Barros travels through one of the regions hardest hit by the fires in the Amazon to show the havoc wreaked by flames and drought. In this diary, published by Amazônia Latitude in partnership with SUMAÚMA, he discusses his expedition. This article is reproduced from Sumaúma. You can read the original here. September 3. I left Manaus at 3:30 PM heading toward the municipality of Humaitá, in southern Amazonas.

Aug 21, 2024 | lab.org.uk | Marcos Colon

In the early hours of Monday August 12, silence fell on the Amazon. Márcio Souza, writer, dramatist, director, novelist, ’emperor of the Amazon’, passed away. Considered one of the most important voices in modern Brazilian literature, he presented the Amazon from what he felt and from the history he so profoundly revealed. Márcio’s work encompassed theatre, literature, and cinema.

Aug 10, 2024 | znetwork.org | Marcos Colon

There was a time when the most dangerous part of Hugo Loss’ job was the grueling rainforest terrain and armed men blasting riverbeds and razing trees for profit. But Loss, an analyst with Brazil’s elite environmental enforcement agency, learned recently that being effective at his job has made him a target, whether he’s helicoptering into the Amazon rainforest or walking on the streets of São Paulo.

Aug 10, 2024 | practicalactionpublishing.com | Marcos Colon

'These essays situate the Bolsonaro period as one of acute disaster but hardly divergent from the general thrust of Amazonian transformation a kind of alchemy of changing life into dead commodities.' Susanna Hetch, University of California, Los Angeles 'These essays are fresh and heartfelt and together are a powerful call for humanity to heed the voices of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon, to learn from them, and to act now.' Fiona Watson, Survival International 'This book is vital reading...