The Mashco Piro is thought to be the largest 'uncontacted group' in the world. (Credit: Getty) ...

The Mashco Piro have chosen to be cut off from the world for more than a century. They hunt with long bows and arrows, ...

Indigenous and community leaders see the upcoming U.N. climate talks in the heart of the Amazon Basin as an unprecedented ...

Does it sometimes seem like every single inch of Earth has been discovered? Far from it. But scientists are working on it.

The Cofán people in Ecuador watch over the forest to defend it from invaders. After studying in the U.S., Hugo Lucitante returned home to help.

Deep in the rainforest, the Yanomami live by ancient laws—far from modern life and surrounded by myth. Some say they’re violent. Others say they’re sacred. The truth is far more complex.

An Indigenous patrol has emerged in the Javari Valley to protect a forest and its people.

Peru is on the verge of rolling back several longstanding protections for Indigenous people and their territories, critics ...

Disease decimated the isolated Nukak people of Colombia. Now, leaders are fighting deforestation to reclaim their lands.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...