A few years ago, I read reports of an indigenous tribe living deep in the Amazon rainforest whose members had hardly any evidence of heart disease. In fact, the researchers concluded after a year-long ...

“The forest is alive. It can only die if the whites continue destroying it. If they do, rivers will disappear under the earth, the soil will crumble, the trees will wither, and the stones will melt in ...

PIRIPKURA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil – Jair Candor had been searching the Amazon rainforest for three days when he heard their voices. He had spent a decade documenting their tracks, but that day ...

"We're part of this natural world, and so we must defend it," he said. Santiago Manuin, one of the most celebrated defenders of Peru's Amazon rainforest and the leader of the Awajún tribe, whose vast ...

Reuters photographer Ueslei Marcelino describes his time visiting the "village of joy:" The mood was one of celebration. The Yawalapiti, one of the 14 tribes living inside the Xingu National Park, ...

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Protected forests in Brazil and Peru hold some of the world’s last remote indigenous groups, increasingly threatened by resource-hungry outsiders. Five Awá families from Posto Awá, an outpost created ...