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Juma Indigenous Territory, Amazonas, Brazil — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators at times competes with the forest, a sign ...

A member of the Amazon Cinta Larga tribe leads federal police to a massacre site in the Amazon Rainforest in 2004. AP One of Brazil’s largest diamond deposits exists in the territory of the Cinta ...

JUMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil (AP) — At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. The sound of generators at times competes with the forest, a sign that ...

Illegal gold mining threatens the environment and human health in the Amazon, said shaman and Yanomami Indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa in a talk at Princeton Jan. 31. And there are consequences for ...

In 1971, on assignment for a Brazilian magazine, the photographer and activist Claudia Andujar rode a small Cessna 185 to the remote Catrimani Mission, in the northern Amazon, and was guided into the ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Brazilian government has strongly criticized a call by two U.S. anthropologists to force contact with South America's most isolated tribes to ensure their ...

The young man from an Indigenous Amazonian tribe is receiving medical treatment, while authorities prepare to attempt communication with him. Reading time 2 minutes A man from one of the Amazon ...