How do you police the world's biggest tropical rainforest? Faced with deadly violence, indigenous people have set up their ...

New pictures have emerged of the Mashco Piro, a rarely-seen uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the remote Peruvian Amazon, amid concerns that logging activity is forcing them out of the dense rainforest ...

A Forest Guardian and member of the Guajajara, an indigenous group that lives in northern Brazil, was shot dead by illegal loggers on Friday. Paulo Paulino Guajajara was with the Forest Guardians team ...

Rural community leader Osvalinda Alves Pereira is the first Brazilian to receive the Edelstam Prize, a Swedish award given to human rights defenders. She was honored this November for her brave stand ...

LIMA >> Rare images of the Mashco Piro, an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the remote Peruvian Amazon, were published on Tuesday by Survival International, showing dozens of the people on the banks of ...

ALTO RIO GUAMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — A bit after sunrise, dozens of Indigenous Tembé men began preparing for the important day ahead. They danced, chanted and donned matching black T-shirts ...

A new study finds that illegal logging, coupled with weak state-run timber licensing systems, has led to massive timber harvesting fraud in Brazil, resulting in huge illicit harvests of Ipê trees.

RIO DE JANEIRO - Paulo Paulino Guajajara knew a violent death could come his way. Three of his fellow "guardians of the forest" - a squad of armed indigenous sentinels - had already been killed by ...

An indigenous forest protector named Paulo Paulino Guajajara was shot dead in the Amazon by illegal loggers on Saturday. It is the latest incident in a wave of violence targeting indigenous land ...