RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — New rules that allow sustainable logging of national forests in the threatened Amazon drew guarded praise from both environmentalists and loggers. President Luiz Inacio da ...

New pictures have emerged of the Mashco Piro, a rarely-seen uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the remote Peruvian Amazon, amid concerns that logging activity is forcing them out of the dense rainforest ...

Environmental activists in Brazil are using technology in an effort to stop illegal loggers from destroying even more parts of the world’s largest rainforest. Activists working for the environmental ...

Tenetehara Indigenous man Romario Tembe, from the Ka’Azar, or Forest Owners, stands on a Piquiarana tree felled by illegal loggers, one of whom was found and apprehended nearby, as the group patrols ...

Dam construction in remote parts of the Amazon is historically proceeded by increased lawlessness as illegal loggers and squatters flock to the project site to cut timber and make land grabs from ...

LIMA >> Rare images of the Mashco Piro, an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the remote Peruvian Amazon, were published on Tuesday by Survival International, showing dozens of the people on the banks of ...

A Forest Guardian and member of the Guajajara, an indigenous group that lives in northern Brazil, was shot dead by illegal loggers on Friday. Paulo Paulino Guajajara was with the Forest Guardians team ...

An indigenous forest protector named Paulo Paulino Guajajara was shot dead in the Amazon by illegal loggers on Saturday. It is the latest incident in a wave of violence targeting indigenous land ...

ALTO RIO GUAMA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil (AP) - A bit after sunrise, dozens of Indigenous Tembé men began preparing for the important day ahead. They danced, chanted and donned matching black ...