As humans and nature reshape the Amazon, some of the world’s last isolated tribes are being forced out of deeper isolation - ...

New investment strengthens long-term protection of more than 15 million hectares of the Peruvian Amazon and expands ...

Healthy forests in protected Indigenous territories could help reduce the risk of certain illnesses for humans, a new study shows. Different factors influence how effective Indigenous territories are ...

NUEVA LOJA, Ecuador (AP) — 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 ...

By Luisa Fernanda BaccaPaulo Ilich Bacca In October 2023, a delegation of La Gente de Centro — the Andoke (Pɵɵsiɵhɵ), Nonuya (Nonova), Muinane (Féénemɨnaa) and Uitoto (Nɨpode) peoples of the Middle ...

Every time humans cut into the Amazon rainforest or burn or destroy parts of it, they're making people sick. It's an idea Indigenous people have lived by for thousands of years. Now a new study in the ...

Indigenous Cofan paraecologists in Ecuador’s Amazon are turning drones, camera traps, and scientific documentation into legal ...

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Indigenous leaders from across the Amazon are urging South American presidents meeting in Bogota this week to turn promises to protect the region's rainforest into concrete action, ...

More than 120 Indigenous protesters have occupied a federal building in Altamira in the Brazilian Amazon since Feb. 23. They ...

Indigenous peoples and the Amazon rainforest have often been exoticized. A new exhibition challenges these long-held tropes.