The protesters want their ancestral land rights, which are under threat from industrial farming in the Amazon, to be ...

BRASILIA - Brazil should not explore oil reserves in the Amazon region, because of the dangerous impact on local communities, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, of the Kayapo people, told Reuters ...

The involvement of Munduruku people in illegal mining inside the Munduruku Indigenous Territory made Brazil’s efforts ... fishing at Tapajós River in the Amazon. Image by Rogério Assis ...

COSTA MARQUES, Brazil ... yielded one of the Amazon’s most remarkable archaeological discoveries: a vast Portuguese military fortress rising above the Guaporé River. The 1913 sighting ...

Brazil's Indigenous Leader Raoni Says He Is Against Drilling for Oil in Amazon Region By Lais Morais BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil should not explore oil reserves in the Amazon region, because of the ...

Trucks line up amid protests that block Brazil's BR 230 national highway. (Coletivo audiovisual Da'uk Frank akay Munduruku/Reuters) Protests by indigenous tribes in the Amazon are blocking one of ...

The Amazon River in South America ... stretching across Peru, Colombia and Brazil. It is home to the world’s largest species of river dolphin and some 60 species of piranha.

Some 15 million tons of soy and corn were loaded onto barges at Miritituba last year bound for larger shipping ports down river. That corresponds to over 10% of Brazil's total export volumes for ...

A legal reversal and unconstitutional amendments Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil ... violated Indigenous rights and (tribes) should have been consulted ...

The Amazon River passes through Brazil, Columbia, Peru, and Venezuela, but Brazil holds the largest portion. Also known as the Solimões River, famously meets with the Rio Negro River to form the ...