When Brazil’s Indigenous protection agency announced that the Akuntsu people — a tribe reduced to just three women — had celebrated their first childbirth ...

On Nov. 7 in Brazil, Indigenous people from the Tupinambá and other ethnic groups occupied the Tapajós River with small boats for several hours, halting barges carrying soybeans and other commodities ...

Babawru, a woman in her 40s, along with her mother and sister, believed they would be the last surviving members of the ...

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 ...

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Indigenous leaders and researchers in Brazil say an end to a key zero-deforestation agreement, the Amazon Soy Moratorium, will increase deforestation around Indigenous lands and encourage the invasion ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Brazil set out to host this year's United Nations climate talks with a promise to spotlight Indigenous peoples whose way of life depends on the Amazon rainforest. Those groups are ...

This year, traditional Indigenous attire will stand proudly among suits and ties at COP30. The UN climate conference opened on Monday in Brazil’s Amazon city of Belém, where Indigenous peoples are ...

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 ...

Brazil’s federal government reverses a decree after Indigenous protesters pressure it to drop plans tied to dredging the ...

Brazil is pushing the Tapajós River waterway as one of the main Amazon shipping corridors and preparing it for privatization, which will enable regular dredging and maintenance to improve its capacity ...