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

The struggle against illegal gold mining in Brazil's Amazon is complicated by Indigenous involvement, driven by economic ...

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

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 ...

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

Two senior police officers were arrested in Brazil on suspicion that they took bribes and provided security for illegal gold mining activity in the Amazon, according to a court document seen by ...

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 ...

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

The rest of the country is mostly made up of dense rainforest and is relatively unpopulated outside of small villages, ...

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

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