One of Brazil's last untouched Indian tribes has been spotted in a dense region of the Amazon jungle close to the Peruvian border, the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) reported. A couple of ...

Violent disputes over indigenous land are on the rise in Brazil, sparking heightened militancy ... Tension is particularly high in the country's northern Amazon region, where the federal ...

Rieli Franciscato spent most of his career trying to protect indigenous tribes in the Amazon A top Brazilian ... of Rondônia state in north-western Brazil. He was in the area to monitor a tribe ...

JUMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — At night ... the Juma people seemed destined to disappear like countless other Amazon tribes decimated by the European invasion. In the late 1990s, the ...

She said she had that perspective when she received a video from a stranger last year asking to help connect a remote Amazon tribe. She had never been to Brazil but thought the return on ...

All across the Amazon Basin, in fact ... widespread fear that the government institutions created to protect Brazil’s tribes also were in danger of disintegrating—a fear that the Awá could ...

Today, there are approximately 100 tribes in the Amazon rainforest that have not interacted with the modern world. A hundred years ago, there were many more. In this co-production with Retro ...

A member of a protected tribe in the Amazon has been killed ... months - increases concerns about violence against Amazon forest protectors. Brazil's populist President Jair Bolsonaro has drawn ...

The first initiative is the Enhancing Indigenous Peoples’ Resilience to Climate Change in Colombia program, funded through a ...