Since then Brazil’s now $700m+ diamond industry has moved into the territory, completely changing the indigenous peoples’ way ...

It was April 7, 2004, and Nacoça Pio was one of the first to learn of the bloodbath. A leader of the Cinta-Larga — an ...

The involvement of Indigenous people in illegal gold hunting, lured by the prospect of easy money due to record prices, has ...

STORY: Flying over Brazil's Para state, agents from the country's environmental protection agency spot signs of an illegal ...

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 ...

Xingu Indigenous Park and Capoto/Jarina Indigenous Territory in Brazil cover an area larger ... Fire is a growing threat across the Amazon, as two years of severe drought — driven largely ...

Indigenous advocates called the final agreement in Azerbaijan "drastically insufficient." Now they're focusing on next year's ...

Mashco-Piro tribe live in Manú National Park in south-east Peru Clan is thought to number in the hundreds in area around Diamante Indians live by rigid social code, and regularly kidnap other ...

According to Brazil’s space agency, INPE, from August 2021 to July 2022, 28% of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon occurred in unallocated public lands. Even in 2023, when deforestation rates ...

For the last 47 years, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians have held an annual powwow to celebrate regaining federal recognition. This month’s event, however, was especially significant ...

Credit: Lisette Morales McCabe/The Washington Post via Getty Images For Florida’s Native American tribes, the watershed is sacred. A new National Academies report says the federal and state agencies ...