Other Amazon nations, too, have taken measures to protect their indigenous peoples. Peru’s Manú National Park contains some of the greatest biodiversity of any nature reserve in the world; permanent ...

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From the depths of Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public ...

An Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon is celebrating a legal victory in the latest stage of its attempt to take back claimed ancestral rainforests. The Puerto Franco community of the Kichwa ...

Juma Indigenous Territory, Amazonas, BrazilJuma Indigenous Territory, Amazonas, Brazil — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators ...

An indigenous tribe that lives deep in the Amazon is putting its encyclopedic knowledge of the jungle into writing for the first time ever. With the help of an American NGO and a local publishing ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

An expert who worked to protect uncontacted Amazonian tribes has been shot and killed with an arrow in Brazil, according to the government’s Indigenous affairs agency, Fundação Nacional do Índio ...

The Man of the Hole is dead. The news was lost amid the noise that fills our days. The confidential records stashed at Mar-a-Lago. President Biden’s loan forgiveness plan. Gas prices. The fate of a ...

Despite the devastation of the 2019 fires in Brazil, ones in 2020 were worse. The Amazon rainforest lost an estimated 5 million acres in 2020, an area roughly the size of Israel, according to a recent ...