In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous women are opening their communities to visitors and sharing traditions shaped by centuries of living alongside the rainforest. From cultivating medicinal plants and ...

Deep in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, the Kichwa people of Pakayaku are quiet yet fierce protectors of the world. According to Mongabay, their mission is to protect their ancestral land from mining, ...

The life of Varî Vãti Marubo shows how much life has changed for the rainforest’s Indigenous tribes — and how much has stayed the same. Varî Vãti Marubo is likely one of the oldest people still living ...

Pugapia and her daughters, Aiga and Babawru, lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people wiped out by a government-backed push to develop parts of the Amazon ...

With Only 3 Women Left, an Amazon Tribe Faced Extinction. an Unexpected Birth Now Brings Hope SAO PAULO (AP) — Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members ...

The very mention of Amazon conjures images of ultimate adventure. Veiled in perpetual mystery, the Amazon River and its enormous rainforest continue to keep many secrets totally unknown to the ...

One of Brazil’s largest diamond deposits exists in the territory of the Cinta Larga — an indigenous tribe in the country’s South West. The tribe have a legend about a group of indigenous women digging ...

This photo taken in February 2024 shows Massaco tribe members planting spikes in the ground to send a message to intruders. Astonishing photos that were taken on remote cameras set up inside the ...

In this photo provided by Funai, Babawru Akuntsu, top, rests beside Akyp, her newborn son, at the Regional Hospital of Vilhena in Vilhena, Rondonia state, Brazil on Dec. 9, 2025, one day after the ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of ...