Believe Amazon

Stories of people who struggle for the Amazon, emphasizing the importance of native peoples’ ancestral wisdom, and projects that are restoring the forest. We can create a more sustainable and fair future for everybody. This content promotes SDG 13 (Climate Action) and has support from
Instituto Socioambiental and Greenpeace.

Believe Amazon Greenpeace Brazil

An indigenous man, 32 years old, with dark skin and black eyes, wearing a headdress made of white and black feathers, looks at the camera without smiling. Behind him are small flags from various countries hanging from a wall. The photo shows the man only from the chest up.

Adriano Karipuna: indigenous resistance in Brazil

By Patricia Bonilha São Paulo, Brazil

A 66-year-old man with a mustache and white hair, a bit bald. He wears glasses and a short-sleeved purple polo shirt. His forearm is resting on a table and his hands are clasped together. He smiles, looking to his left. In the background is a living room with a sofa, a large wooden table and a large, leafy green plant.

Carlos Nobre: The Amazonian intelligence

By Mariana Della Barba São Paulo, Brazil

Photo of a silhouette of three boys in a canoe, paddling in a river towards a forest. The photo seems to have been taken at sunset.

7 movies that will change your understanding of the Amazon

By Believe.Earth São Paulo, Brazil

An indigenous girl, who looks about 7 years old, with big black eyes and straight black hair down to her chest. She is looking at the camera and smiling slightly. The lower halves of both of her cheeks are painted with black stripes. Behind her, shown only partially, is a wooden house with a thatched roof.

An indigenous people’s story shows that health is more than the absence of disease

By Mariana Della Barba e Maria Fernanda Ribeiro Guaranta do Norte, Brazil

An indigenous man with short black hair, shirtless and wearing only green shorts, with his full body painted black from the nose down. He is sitting on a beach chair, with sunglasses resting on his head and holding a bamboo spear with a feather on its tip. The chair is on dirt ground, and behind him we see parts of a small wooden house with a thatch roof.

The indigenous tribe that escaped genocide

By Maria Fernanda Ribeiro e Mariana Della Barba Guaranta do Norte, Brazil

Aerial image of a green florset cut by a large river of dark color. The sky is blue with white clouds.

Rekindling the connection with the Amazon

By Mariana Della Barba Manaus, Brazil

A white man with short gray hair and brown eyes is wearing a pink shirt with a light gray jacket. He looks at the camera without smiling. In the background is a city street, blurred.

Antonio Nobre: A scientist advocates for the Amazon

By Karina Miotto Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil

A man with gray hair and a beard, wearing a dark green t-shirt, looks at the camera. In the background is a wooden house and some of its interior.

Jair Candor: Defender of the Piripkura People

By Mariana Della Barba Colniza, Brazil

Photograph of a man with gray hair wearing a black shirt.

Beto Ricardo: A life dedicated to indigenous peoples

By Elisa Menezes State of Amazonas, Brazil

A man with bronze skin and short, wavy dark brown hair is facing the camera and holding a small sapling in his left hand, its roots coming out of a small clump of earth. He has red paint on his face, in the form of three horizontal stripes. The uppermost stripe is the thickest, filling the space between his eyebrows and the bottom of his eyes. The two stripes below are thinner and run, respectively, directly below his nose, and over his mouth. Over his shoulders is a piece of thick white cloth with vertical light blue and gray stripes. He is wearing a headdress made out of straw with black embroidery. The base of the headdress fits tightly onto his head. Its top has a wider shape than the base and is open, his hair coming up through it. The man is wearing a variety of necklaces around his chest, made from different beads and with various pendants, the largest of which is made of black beads and runs below the bottom margin of the photo. Behind him is tall green foliage.

Benki Piyãko: Sustainability from indigenous knowledge

By Elisa Menezes State of Acre, Brazil

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Cacique Jose: Stories of a forest people

By Camila Grinsztejn State of Mato Grosso, Brazil

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Near the left edge of the photo, an indigenous woman facing the camera is holding a large hoe that is digging into the earth in front of her. She has long, straight dark hair in a ponytail, and wears yellow rubber boots, a pink skirt down to her shins, a lime green long-sleeved shirt and a straw hat. In the right side of the photo, an indigenous girl watches the woman work, her left hand resting on her hip. She has long, straight dark hair with bangs that cover her forehead. She is wearing a flower print dress that is yellow and red, with red trim and a red band at the hip, and pink flip-flops. The woman and girl are standing on soft, dark earth and thin green grass. In the back is a cloudy sky.

Local seed network saves forests and grows collectors’ incomes

By Mariana Della Barba Nova Xavantina, Brazil

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