*** For decades, the governments of Amazon nations showed little interest in protecting these groups; they often viewed them as unwanted remnants of backwardness. In the 1960s and ’70s Brazil tried, ...

(CNN)-- Researchers have produced aerial photos of jungle dwellers who they say are among the few remaining peoples on Earth who have had no contact with the outside world. Taken from a small airplane ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few ...

Critics accuse missionaries of exploiting the issue in attempt to convert tribes BRASILIA, Brazil, Sept. 23, 2008 — -- Evangelical Christian missionaries have launched a campaign against what ...

But they do practice one chilling custom: like other Amazon Indians, they sometimes kill their babies. “We’ve never seen it happen, but they’ve told us they do it,” Magna says. “I know of one case ...

MP: “Really? I know the Amazon a bit. Where in the Amazon?” KB: “With a small tribe of Indians—the Waurá. There are only a few hundred of them.” MP: “I came back from their territory just five days ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian Amazon Indian leaders are warning of renewed protests, alleging Friday that the government has not honored promises made in the aftermath of June violence that left at least ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — It was dusk on April 14 when Francisco Kuruaya heard a boat approaching along the river near his village in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. He assumed it was the regular delivery boat, ...

BRASILIA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Native Indians in Brazil have found survivors from a military plane that crashed into the Amazon rain forest with 11 people on board, the air force said on Friday, without ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

(Adds survivor quote, details) By Raymond Colitt BRASILIA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Nine people survived a crash landing on a river in Brazil's Amazon rainforest after native Indians alerted authorities who ...