Peruvian authorities are backing a highway project that would cut through 5,400 hectares (more than 13,300 acres) of the ...

More than 100 indigenous activists in Peru´s Amazon occupied infrastructure belonging to the state-run Petroperú pipeline, the company said on Tuesday, demanding improved social benefits and health ...

A top expert on isolated Amazon tribes in Brazil was killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest as he approached an indigenous group, friends and a police witness said on Thursday.

Beekeeping means an Indigenous community in Amazon provides economic livelihoods and helps them continue to protect the ...

Atxu Marima survived the flu that killed his family after a jaguar attack drove them from their Indigenous group in the ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of poisonous frog—brightly colored and measuring just a few millimeters—in the ...

A Catholic bishop in Peru’s Amazon is warning that mercury from illegal gold mining is contaminating rivers, fish and people ...

LOS ANGELES — A California judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Indigenous tribe in the Brazilian Amazon against The New York Times and TMZ that claimed the newspaper’s reporting on the tribe’s ...

The Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians announced Friday morning that it has broke ground for sitework and initial tribal government offices in Vallejo. According to Patrick Bergin with Scotts Valley, ...