The involvement of Indigenous people in illegal gold hunting, lured by the prospect of easy money due to record prices, has ...

Since then Brazil’s now $700m+ diamond industry has moved into the territory, completely changing the indigenous peoples’ way ...

This year alone, Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa was received by Pope Francis at the Vatican, was featured at a special place ...

Two senior police officers in Brazil were arrested for allegedly assisting illegal gold mining by accepting bribes for ...

It was April 7, 2004, and Nacoça Pio was one of the first to learn of the bloodbath. A leader of the Cinta-Larga — an ...

When created in 2006, the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area in the Brazilian Amazon was supposed to preserve the ...

Initial results from Harvard reveal high levels of mercury in the Madeira, although still below the limit recommended by ...

A Canadian company mining a key fertilizer for grain crops in Brazil’s Amazon region is set to have its shares traded in the ...

Indigenous advocates called the final agreement in Azerbaijan "drastically insufficient." Now they're focusing on next year's ...

Last year, she helped win passage of a referendum in Ecuador to block oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest’s Yasuní Park ...

In Part 2 of our special broadcast, we look at a recent victory for Indigenous communities in Ecuador, where people overwhelmingly voted to approve a ...

Indigenous peoples forced from the Amazon rainforest are finally getting the legal power to return—and it’s not only about ...