As the Amazon burns, Fabio Zuker shares stories of resistance,
self-determination, and kinship with the land. In 2007, a seven-ton
minke whale was found stranded on the banks of the Tapajos River,
hundreds of miles into the Amazon rainforest. For days,
environmentalists, journalists, and locals followed the lost whale,
hoping to guide her back to the ocean, but ultimately proved unable
to save her. Ten years later, journalist Fabio Zuker travels to the
state of Para, to the town known as "the place where the whale
appeared," which developers are now eyeing for mining, timber, and
soybean cultivation. In these essays, Zuker shares intimate stories
of life in the rainforest and its surrounding cities during an age
of raging wildfires, mass migration, populist politics, and
increasing deforestation. As a group of Venezuelan migrants wait at
a bus station in Manaus, looking for a place more stable than home,
an elder in Alter do Chao becomes the first Indigenous person in
Brazil to die from COVID-19 after years of fighting for the rights
and recognition of the Borari people. The subjects Zuker interviews
are often torn between ties with their ancestral territories and
the push for capitalist gain; The Life and Death of a Minke Whale
in the Amazon captures the friction between their worlds and the
resilience of movements for autonomy, self-definition, and respect
for the land that nourishes us.
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