The Javari Valley in the Brazilian state of Amazonas is home to an estimated nineteen uncontacted tribes, more than any other territory on Earth. There are also seven contacted tribes who live in the ...

It has happened many times before, and it’s happening again: Members of a previously uncontacted tribe that recently made contact with the outside world have gotten sick. Now, they’ve retreated back ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Environmentalists in Brazil are ...

The worst land grab in decades in the Brazilian Amazon is threatening the survival of isolated tribes that have no contact with the outside world, a rights group said Wednesday. Ranchers and settlers ...

Indigenous peoples are frequently regarded as obstacles to the advance of agribusiness, extractive industries, roads and dams. Uncontacted tribes become targets – massacred over resources because ...

A huge fire engulfing a swath of Brazilian jungle threatens the existence of remote indigenous tribes and may have been started by illegal loggers invading the territory, Greenpeace said Wednesday.

PALIMIU, Brazil—As two helicopters from Brazil’s environmental agency Ibama and the police landed in a clearing in the heart of the Amazon, the hard-bitten men who make a living illegally panning for ...