Lands inhabited by Indigenous peoples in the tropics host much of the world's biodiversity. An estimated 60 million ...

Miguel Guimaraes Vasquez fought for years to protect his homeland in the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the ...

Brazil’s Valley of the Dinosaurs in Paraíba state is best known for its extensive fossilized dinosaur tracks. But a recent ...

Brazil's Quilombola people, the descendants of Africans who escaped slavery, have lived in the nation's vast Amazon and ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Tuesday signed a new law to expand the country’s affirmative action policies, increasing the quota for government jobs reserved ...

British journalist Dom Phillips had been working for years on a book about saving the Amazon when he was killed in the region ...

A remote indigenous tribe Amazon tribe in Brazil has sued The New York Times, claiming a story about its first exposure to the internet has led to widespread reports that its members have become ...

The Marubo tribe is suing the New York Times and others for falsely portraying them as porn addicts after gaining internet ...

An Amazon tribe sued the New York Times, TMZ, and Yahoo for defamation, claiming the coverage misrepresented their culture.

An Indigenous tribe from the Brazilian Amazon has sued the New York Times over the ... The Marubo Tribe of the Javari Valley, a sovereign community of about 2,000 people in the rainforest, filed the ...

Director Anaya has also dedicated much of her life to aiding Brazil’s Indigenous ... people, who were studied by Nimuendajú, teaching them drawing, illustration and graphic arts. She and the ...