Babawru, a woman in her 40s, along with her mother and sister, believed they would be the last surviving members of the ...

One official calls a newborn boy "a symbol of the resistance of the Akuntsu people, but also a source of hope for Indigenous ...

Three women lived for years as the last members of the Akuntsu people, who were decimated by a government-backed push to ...

As they advanced in age without a child to carry on the line, many expected the Akuntsu to vanish when the three remaining ...

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 ...

Rare images of members of the world’s largest uncontacted tribe show them emerging from the Peruvian Amazon – only miles from where companies are controversially logging pristine rainforest. The ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The new book Seremos Jaguares (We Will Be Jaguars) by Indigenous leader Nemonte Nenquimo is the memoir of a woman who fought against large oil ...

Kichwa, Ticuna and Matsés women are leading forest patrols and training other women in the use of technology such as GPS, drones and satellite alerts. They are protecting the forest not only as an ...

Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists consider an alarming sign ...

We Will Be Jaguars, written with her partner Mitch Anderson, is Nemonte Nenquimo’s memoir of her life and struggle growing up as a Waorani woman in the Ecuadorian Amazon. After her early childhood in ...