The reserve had been proposed to protect Indigenous people living in isolation along the border with Brazil. Indigenous ...

The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) recently announced the creation of a formal role for Indigenous peoples, giving them a voice for the first time in one of the Amazon Basin’s most ...

An estimated 7,000 Indigenous people live in voluntary isolation in the country’s Amazon forests, but they face increased ...

By Aimee Gabay In 2015, leaders of the Wampís did what no other Indigenous peoples have done in Peru’s modern history: They ...

Presidents from South America’s Amazon nations gathered Friday alongside Indigenous leaders to agree on a joint plan to safeguard the world’s largest rainforest — a vast region seen as crucial to ...

People from the Mura tribe are pictured in a file photo at a deforested area in unmarked Indigenous lands inside the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Brazil.

That harm is measurable. Since 1994, the Madeira Basin has endured more extreme floods and droughts than any other part of the Amazon. In 2024, the river reached its lowest level ever recorded.

While oil prospects in the Amazon north shore attract international attention, the offer of exploration blocks around Indigenous territories goes unnoticed in Mato Grosso state.

Presidents from South America's Amazon nations gathered Friday alongside Indigenous leaders to agree on a joint plan to safeguard the world's largest rainforest -- a vast region seen as crucial to ...

Just offshore, bundled in puffy jackets against the Bay wind, Indigenous leaders from Ecuador’s Amazon paddled kayaks through choppy waters, calling attention to the oil expansion threatening ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin.