Fifty Munduruku warriors hack their way with machetes through the undergrowth of the Amazon rainforest, marking the borders of their ancestral lands to finish a task that the Brazilian government has ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's government should hear native Indians before deciding on the construction of a controversial $17.3 billion hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, rock ...

As they advanced in age without a child to carry on the line, many expected the Akuntsu to vanish when the three remaining ...

On Feb. 3, at the request of an association of the Indigenous Cinta Larga people in the Amazon, the Brazilian Supreme Court ...

Babawru, a woman in her 40s, along with her mother and sister, believed they would be the last surviving members of the ...

State-run energy firm Petrobras faces resistance from Indigenous groups for its goal to open Brazil's northern coast to oil drilling. An environmental agency denied Petrobras a license for exploratory ...

Sao Paulo — Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of the ...

Sao Paulo - Brazil's government should hear native Indians before deciding on the construction of a controversial $17.3-billion hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon rain forest, rock star and ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe who approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon returned voluntarily to his people less than 24 hours later, Brazilian ...

The Mashco-Piro tribe, believed to be the world's largest uncontacted indigenous group, has been forced from their Amazon rainforest home in Peru ...

On the evening of Feb. 12, a teenager from an isolated Indigenous group voluntarily made contact with people in a fishing village in the western Brazilian Amazon, according to Brazil’s Indigenous ...

SAO PAULO — As Brazil seeks to boost its environmental credentials by hosting the United Nations’ climate summit, a proposal to build a railway through the Amazon has threatened to tarnish that image ...