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 ...

Vanishing Worlds: Art And Ritual In Amazonia. Birmingham Museum of Art. Through July 27. The Birmingham Museum of Art is presenting a stunningly beautiful exhibition that is as much a record of ...

Among wild tribes of the Amazons, an account of exploration and adventure on the mighty Amazon and its confluents, with descriptions of the savage head-hunting and anthropophagous tribes inhabiting ...

In the sprawling greenery of the Brazilian Amazon, near the border with Peru, a group of people -- small in the distance -- walk through a clearing. These are isolated tribe members, and little do ...

Incredible photos give a rare look into the life of the “world’s most endangered tribe” who still hunt with bows and arrows to survive in their shrinking forest. There are only around 80 of the ...

Armed with smartphone cameras, teams of indigenous Matsés people have partnered with North American herpetologists to inventory the reptiles and amphibians of their territory along the remote divide ...

Brazil’s agency for indigenous affairs, Funai, released the video this week. Deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, in a part seemingly unmarred by civilization, lives a secluded tribe. Its people have ...

The last known surviving member of an Amazon tribe — dubbed “The Man of the Hole” — has died in Brazil, after resisting any contact with the outside world for nearly 30 years, officials said. Brazil’s ...

Environmentalists in Brazil are mourning the death of a leading expert on uncontacted tribes in the Amazon, who was killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest. Friends of Rieli Franciscato say he ...

Click here for the complete gallery of Sebastião Salgado photos, including images not included in the current issue of Rolling Stone. As a boy growing up on a ranch in Brazil, Sebastião Salgado ...

The nomadic Awá tribe of Brazil is one of the world's last "uncontacted" tribes. Charlie Hamilton James / National Geographic Incredible photos give a rare look into the life of the “world’s most ...