An increase of just 0.03% in illegal gold mining is associated with a 20 to 46% increase in the local incidence of malaria in ...

Demarcation of 410,000 hectares of territory is intended to protect the Amazonian community from farming, illegal mining and logging ...

By Aimee Gabay Illegal invasions in the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous territory in Brazil’s Pará state, home to isolated Igarapé ...

The launch took place at Funai headquarters in Brasília – Photo: Mário Vilela/Funai The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) launched this Friday (12), at the Auditorium of the ...

SÃO PAULO – An Indigenous man who lived alone in the Amazon rainforest for over three decades – and became a symbol of the bloody massacres behind the story of the so-called isolated Indigenous groups ...

Bruno studied journalism, she adds, but dropped out of university to work in the interior of Amazonas, before joining Funai, Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency. “He also had a very clear perception of ...

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe who approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon returned voluntarily to his people less than 24 hours later, Brazilian ...

Federal Decree No. 12,373/2025, published on February 3, 2025, reinforces FUNAI’s regulatory authority over indigenous lands and restricted areas by outlining offenses such as unauthorized entry by ...

BRASILIA, Brazil — In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon, the country’s Indigenous affairs agency and local witnesses ...

Astonishing new photos from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest give a glimpse of a prosperous, never-before-seen indigenous community living near the Bolivian border, according to a report. The images, ...

An editorial in the June 1, 1852, edition of the New York Daily Times, citing the recent admission of California to the union and “the discovery of gold amid its glistening sands,” urged Americans to ...