Inspired by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace’s visit nearly two centuries ago, an isolated Indigenous community in Brazil ...

A United Nations effort is channeling more finance to communities to help them conserve, restore and sustainably manage ...

Paulo Paulino Guajajara in November 2019 in the Arariboia Indigenous Territory, located in the Brazilian Amazon, Mongabay reported on Nov. 13. Expressing his frustration over the five-year delay ...

By Aimee Gabay An ongoing federal highway project that will cross through protected areas and Indigenous lands in Peru’s Amazon is facing mounting concerns by Indigenous leaders and legal experts.

Colombia has created a first-of-its-kind territory meant to protect a group of Indigenous people living away from regular ...

Opponents fear that mining will expose the tribe to harmful pollution and hurt tribal unity, while supporters think it will ...

it is the others who occupy 86%,” Lula recalled while insisting that the expansion of indigenous territories was a necessity to preserve the Amazon. Lula made those remarks at the 52nd Assembly ...

Deforestation in the Amazon remains dangerously high. This continues to devastate the lands of Indigenous peoples and local communities, killing wildlife, and worsening the climate crisis. Every ...

LAGO DO SOARES, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura stands before Soares Lake in Brazil’s Amazon, looking out at the amber waters that are surrounded by a jagged shoreline that ...