Standing beside a stream stained dark with oil in Ecuador’s northern Amazon, an Indigenous woman shook her head in disbelief as she stared at the oily sheen drifting across the water and broken pipes ...

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 ...

Three women lived for years as the last members of the Akuntsu people, who were decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s and ‘80s.

SANTAREM/BRASILIA, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Brazil has decided to revoke a decree that would have expanded Amazonian waterways in a federal privatization program, a government official said on Monday, a ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian government said Monday it would revoke a decree signed by leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that allowed private concessions for waterways, following 33 days ...

The jaguar is listed as near threatened on the IUCN Red List due to threats such as habitat loss and overhunting, but finds a safe haven in Brazil within protected areas and Indigenous lands. A ...

Four students on Feb. 4 asked the Saratoga City Council to formally recognize the Muwekma Ohlone tribe. The students were affiliated with the Indigenous Justice Coalition, a student-run nonprofit that ...

A recent study comparing different land tenure regimes in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest found that Indigenous lands and agrarian-reform settlements have greater restoration gains than private properties — ...

MANISTEE — Indigenous tribes across Northern Michigan are speaking out against a proposed rule repeal of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule warning it could disrupt sacred burial grounds and threaten ...

SAO PAULO(AP) — Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting for almost a week at a Cargill facility in Santarem in northern Brazil against a decree signed in August by President Luiz Inácio ...