As video footage released by Brazil's indigenous authorities shows three uncontacted Amazonian men making contact with the outside world, here's an explanation of who they are and why they have rarely ...

“It is very worrying; they are in danger,” said Enrique Añez, president of the neighboring Yine community, which is also indigenous, to The Independent. The Mashco Piro dwell in isolation deep within ...

Other Amazon nations, too, have taken measures to protect their indigenous peoples. Peru’s Manú National Park contains some of the greatest biodiversity of any nature reserve in the world; permanent ...

JAVARI VALLEY INDIGENOUS TERRITORY: As the speeches dragged on, eyes drifted to screens. Teenagers scrolled through Instagram. One man texted his girlfriend. And men crowded around a phone, streaming ...

Local and regional actors, particularly commercial and landowner elites in mid-sized cities, play an important role in the expansion and improvement of road networks. In Brazil, lobbying by private ...

One of the largest known uncontacted tribes on the planet has had recent interactions with outsiders, prompting concerns among activists that the extremely isolated society is in grave jeopardy. “It ...

The jungle, I knew, was dangerous. There were animals throughout southwestern Peru’s Manú National Park that could, if push came to shove, tear my face clean off. The Andean spectacled bear in the ...

Bogotá (AFP) – Colombia's Constitutional Court on Wednesday annulled a controversial carbon credit deal in the Amazon rainforest, which six local tribes said had been signed without their consent.

The Amazonian Marbo tribe, who were interviewed in the New York Times article 'Amazonian tribes plagued by pornography after first accessing the internet,' have filed a defamation lawsuit against the ...