Raoni's 1 600-strong community has a two-pronged approach to defending its ancestral homeland: conducting patrols against ...

Brazil’s plans to build ports and roads to help move grains, beef and iron ore from the rainforest echo a development vision ...

Raoni told AFP in an interview ahead of the visit that he would press Lula to halt plans for an oil mega-project at the mouth of the Amazon river, and urge that the community should get ...

The Brazilian Amazon was ravaged by a staggering 140,000 fires last year -- many of them started to clear land for livestock or crops. A blaze in Capoto/Jarina wiped out crops and medicinal plants ...

"I have no other word to describe it." Researchers stunned after observing changes in jaguar behavior in Amazon rainforest: ...

Marcos Colón’s book, grounded in the experiences of Indigenous communities, examines how the institutional violence of Jair ...

You don't need a GPS to find the home turf of the Amazon's most famous resident, Brazilian Chief Raoni Metuktire. As you approach his Capoto/Jarina Indigenous territory in Mato Grosso state ...

Currently producing about five tons of Brazil nuts annually, Rio Novo now aims to expand into global markets. The next phase, with HIH's support, will focus on increasing the community's autonomy by ...

Brazil's state-run oil firm Petrobras and the country's development bank BNDES have partnered up to create a program to ...

Heloísa Fernandes, Brazilian pianist and composer, gave a solo piano concert Feb ... We were told to pat our hands on our laps and make noises to emulate the Amazon rainforest. The performance ...