How do you police the world's biggest tropical rainforest? Faced with deadly violence, indigenous people have set up their ...

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 ...

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard patrols their ancestral land armed with spears, machetes and a ...

Fire has overtaken logging as the Amazon’s main driver of deforestation for the first time. As drought and heat intensify, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rural community leader Osvalinda Alves Pereira is the first Brazilian to receive the Edelstam Prize, a Swedish award given to human rights defenders. She was honored this November for her brave stand ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LIMA, Peru (AP) — Authorities in Peru have ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Paulo Paulino Guajajara knew a violent death could come his way. Three of his fellow "guardians of the forest" - a squad of armed indigenous sentinels - had already been killed by ...

A new study finds that illegal logging, coupled with weak state-run timber licensing systems, has led to massive timber harvesting fraud in Brazil, resulting in huge illicit harvests of Ipê trees.

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 — A bit after sunrise, dozens of Indigenous Tembé men began preparing for the important day ahead. They danced, chanted and donned matching black T-shirts ...