A corn plantation in the Parecis Plateau in northwest Mato Grosso. The region...
A corn plantation in the Parecis Plateau in northwest Mato Grosso. The region that functions as a watershed between the Amazon and La Plata basins was rapidly occupied by intensive grain agriculture f...
Men work in a gold mine in Peixoto de Azevedo in northern Mato Grosso, which...
Men work in a gold mine in Peixoto de Azevedo in northern Mato Grosso, which is one of the largest gold producing areas in Brazil. Part of the extraction activity is illegal and even those legalised d...
Indigenous Indian men participate in the 'Quarup', a funeral ceremony, in...
Indigenous Indian men participate in the 'Quarup', a funeral ceremony, in Yawalapiti village amid smoke from forest fires. With the warming temperature, caused by the climate change, the number of for...
Indigenous Indians prepare to attend a funeral ceremony at Yawalapiti Village...
Indigenous Indians prepare to attend a funeral ceremony at Yawalapiti Village amidst the smoke that has covered the Xingu Indigenous Park due to the large number of forest fires.
Anti-coup protestors in Tharketa township carrying home made shields, that...
Anti-coup protestors in Tharketa township carrying home made shields, that might offer some protection against rubber bullets but not against the live rounds used by the security forces, as they wait...
A woman carries her dog as she walks past the frontline where anti-coup...
A woman carries her dog as she walks past the frontline where anti-coup protestors have gathered in Tharketa township to wait for the security forces crack down.
Anti-coup protestors in Tharketa township carrying home made shields, that...
Anti-coup protestors in Tharketa township carrying home made shields, that might offer some protection against rubber bullets but not against the live rounds used by the security forces, as they wait...
Anti-coup protestors, some who have come from different parts of the city, and...
Anti-coup protestors, some who have come from different parts of the city, and local residents rest before they join together in attempting to block the security forces from entering Tharketa township...
An anti-coup protestor carries a black flag, a symbol of the more militant...
An anti-coup protestor carries a black flag, a symbol of the more militant protestors, as he walks on a road strewn with broken bricks scattered to try and block the security forces from entering Thar...
Anti-coup protestors, some who have come from different parts of the city, and...
Anti-coup protestors, some who have come from different parts of the city, and local residents eat and rest before they join together in attempting to block the security forces from entering Tharketa...
A druken resident of the Quilombola (Afro-Brazilian) community of Pedras...
A druken resident of the Quilombola (Afro-Brazilian) community of Pedras Negras passed out on a bench. The process of providing land deeds to communities started by former slaves was already slow befo...
IBAMA's (Brazil's environmental protection agency) headquarters in Humaita,...
IBAMA's (Brazil's environmental protection agency) headquarters in Humaita, which was set on fire in 2017 by miners after an agency operation to combat illegal gold mining on the Madeira River, and wh...
Riot police walk down a dirt road inside the Bom Futuro National Forest to...
Riot police walk down a dirt road inside the Bom Futuro National Forest to remove invaders who had set up a camp with about 200 shacks inside the reserve. In 2019, Bom Futuro lost 874 hectares of fore...
Indigenous Indians prepare to attend a funeral ceremony at Yawalapiti Village...
Indigenous Indians prepare to attend a funeral ceremony at Yawalapiti Village amidst the smoke that has covered the Xingu Indigenous Park due to the large number of forest fires.
An indigenous man walks through the village of Yawalapiti amidst the smoke...
An indigenous man walks through the village of Yawalapiti amidst the smoke from bush fires in the Xingu Indigenous Park. With rising temperatures, caused by climate change, the number of forest fires...
A Buddhist monk, U Pyina Nanda, shows a wound on his arm from a bullet fired...
A Buddhist monk, U Pyina Nanda, shows a wound on his arm from a bullet fired by the security forces as they chased anti-coup protestors in Tharketa township.
Anti-coup protestors, some who have come from different parts of the city, and...
Anti-coup protestors, some who have come from different parts of the city, and local residents rest before they join together in attempting to block the security forces from entering Tharketa township...
Recent deforestation in the municipality of Apui, along the Trans-Amazonian...
Recent deforestation in the municipality of Apui, along the Trans-Amazonian highway in the south of Amazonas State. Apui is on the front line of agricultural expansion in the Amazon, the seventh most...
An area deforested by land grabbers in the Trincheira Bacaja Indigenous Land.
An area deforested by land grabbers in the Trincheira Bacaja Indigenous Land. President Bolsonaro's speeches denigrating indigenous populations acted as a stimulus for invaders of indigenous lands. In...
An indigenous man walks through the village of Yawalapiti amidst the smoke...
An indigenous man walks through the village of Yawalapiti amidst the smoke from bush fires in the Xingu Indigenous Park. With rising temperatures, caused by climate change, the number of forest fires...
A tractor, almost hidden by undergrowth, used in illegal timber operations...
A tractor, almost hidden by undergrowth, used in illegal timber operations inside the Jamari National Forest which was confiscated by the Chico Mendes Institute of Conservation and Biodiversity (ICMBi...
Small patches of rain forest, surrounded by vast agricultural fields, are all...
Small patches of rain forest, surrounded by vast agricultural fields, are all that remain after vast swathes of forest have suffered deforestation. Para State is the most deforested of all Brazil's Am...
A resident of Altamira's stilt houses who was forced to relocate because of...
A resident of Altamira's stilt houses who was forced to relocate because of the construction of Belo Monte dam, dismantles his house to reuse this material to build a new home or to expand the footpri...
Recent deforestation in the municipality of Apui, along the Trans-Amazonian...
Recent deforestation in the municipality of Apui, along the Trans-Amazonian highway in the south of Amazonas State. Apui is on the front line of agricultural expansion in the Amazon, the seventh most...
Jasson Oliveira do Nascimento, resident of the Arapixi Extractive Reserve,...
Jasson Oliveira do Nascimento, resident of the Arapixi Extractive Reserve, cuts the vegetation to make way for the canoe in the stream that leads to the Antimary Extractive Settlement Project, where h...
An area deforested by land grabbers in the Trincheira Bacaja Indigenous Land.
An area deforested by land grabbers in the Trincheira Bacaja Indigenous Land. President Bolsonaro's speeches denigrating indigenous populations acted as a stimulus for invaders of indigenous lands. In...
A member of the Specialized Inspection Group (GEF) , a part of IBAMA...
A member of the Specialized Inspection Group (GEF) , a part of IBAMA (Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources), Brazil's environmental protection agency, searching for i...
A legal logging crew take a rest after cutting down a pequi tree in the Jamari...
A legal logging crew take a rest after cutting down a pequi tree in the Jamari National Forest. The lack of monitoring by environmental agencies and consequent ease of illegal logging, even in protect...
A newly arrived migrant family from Rondonia State walk along the...
A newly arrived migrant family from Rondonia State walk along the Trans-Amazonian Highway in rural Apui. Apui is on the front line of agricultural expansion in the Amazon, the seventh most deforested...
Landless Sebastiao Pereira (70) rests in his tent at a camp in Vila Rio Pardo.
Landless Sebastiao Pereira (70) rests in his tent at a camp in Vila Rio Pardo. This camp was set up last year by families who were evacuated from an invaded area within the Bom Futuro National Forest....
A rifle used by extractivists for hunting and protection is left on a pile of...
A rifle used by extractivists for hunting and protection is left on a pile of opened Brazil nut husks at the Antimary Extractive Settlement Project. This area is being invaded by land grabbers who are...
Rubber tapper Rian Azevedo de Barros, 18, extracts latex from a rubber tree in...
Rubber tapper Rian Azevedo de Barros, 18, extracts latex from a rubber tree in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, which was the most threatened and deforested protected area in 2019, according to IM...
A member of the Specialized Inspection Group (GEF) , a part of IBAMA...
A member of the Specialized Inspection Group (GEF) , a part of IBAMA (Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources), Brazil's environmental protection agency, destroys brick...
A truck driven by minors and loaded with illegal timber extracted from...
A truck driven by minors and loaded with illegal timber extracted from Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Land, is apprehended by IBAMA agents ( Brazil's environmental protection agency) on the Trans-Amazonian...
An area deforested by land grabbers for cattle pasture in the Trincheira...
An area deforested by land grabbers for cattle pasture in the Trincheira Bacaja Indigenous Land. President Bolsonaro's speeches denigrating indigenous populations acted as a stimulus for invaders of i...
A Xikrin indigenous woman uses the only public telephone in the village Rapko...
A Xikrin indigenous woman uses the only public telephone in the village Rapko in the Trincheira Bacaja Indigenous Land, which had part of their area invaded and cleared by land grabbers. President Bol...
Xikrin warriors arrive at Rapko village after a jungle expedition to remove...
Xikrin warriors arrive at Rapko village after a jungle expedition to remove invaders from the Trincheira Bacaja Indigenous Land which had part of their area invaded and cleared by land grabbers. Aband...
Jasson Oliveira do Nascimento harvests Brazil nuts on the Antimary...
Jasson Oliveira do Nascimento harvests Brazil nuts on the Antimary Agroextractivist Project (PAE) in the south of Amazonas state. This area is being invaded by land grabbers who are deforesting the ju...
A statue of beef cattle indicates the entrance of a farm in Peixoto de Azevedo...
A statue of beef cattle indicates the entrance of a farm in Peixoto de Azevedo alongside the BR-163 highway. This region that was once covered by the Amazon rainforest has been deforested to make way...
A youth navigates his canoe through dead trees on the Xingu River, formed...
A youth navigates his canoe through dead trees on the Xingu River, formed after the flooding of the Belo Monte dam reservoir, an area of nearly 516 km2. The rotting vegetation releases methane gas whi...
A homeless family builds an improvised shack on squated land invaded by...
A homeless family builds an improvised shack on squated land invaded by landless people on the outskirts of Manaus, next to the city's Industrial Zone.
An aerial view of the construction of the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River.
An aerial view of the construction of the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River. More than 80% of the river's waters has been diverted from its natural course, making it one of the biggest man-made interv...
The construction of the bypass channel for the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam.
The construction of the bypass channel for the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam. More than 80% of the water in the Xingu River has been diverted from its natural course, making it one of the largest man-m...
A frontline defender looks over the top of a wood and corrugated zinc panel...
A frontline defender looks over the top of a wood and corrugated zinc panel barricade as anti-coup protestors get ready for the expected crack down by the security forces in Tarmwe township.
A man aims a home made weapon as anti-coup protestors and frontline defenders...
A man aims a home made weapon as anti-coup protestors and frontline defenders get ready for the expected crack down by the security forces in Tarmwe township.
A billboard with a message of support to President Bolsonaro financed by local...
A billboard with a message of support to President Bolsonaro financed by local farmers from the city of Altamira, which is located on the banks of the Trans- Amazonian highway.
An area degraded by gold mining, located on the banks of the Peixoto de...
An area degraded by gold mining, located on the banks of the Peixoto de Azevedo River in northern Mato Grosso. This region that was once covered by the Amazon rain forest but has been cleared to make...
A boy rests on the banks of the Xingu River in Paratizao, a river dweller...
A boy rests on the banks of the Xingu River in Paratizao, a river dweller community located near the dam of Belo Monte. The place is surrounded by great toothpick-like patches of dead trees, formed af...
Police officers photograph and examine the body of a man killed in rural...
Police officers photograph and examine the body of a man killed in rural Altamira. The police have laid out bank notes found on the dead man which they say indicates he was executed and not killed dur...
A woman lies on a sofa as a police officer searches for drugs in a shack used...
A woman lies on a sofa as a police officer searches for drugs in a shack used by crack cocaine users on Olarias Street, in one of the most violent neighbourhoods in Altamira.
A man pushes a bicycle along a boardwalk in the 'Baixoes' (lowlands) district...
A man pushes a bicycle along a boardwalk in the 'Baixoes' (lowlands) district on the outskirts of Altamira, a region taken by stilted shacks that were permanently flooded by the Belo Monte dam, leadin...
The Farndon family inspect small pyritised ammonites during a guided fossil...
The Farndon family inspect small pyritised ammonites during a guided fossil tour with geologist Paddy Howe on the beach at Lyme Regis. The Farndons came fossil hunting after their daughter, Ellie, hea...