When a 2018 fire burned across 73,000 hectares (180,000 acres) of the Santana Indigenous Territory, located in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna, the local Bakairi people waited helplessly for authorities who ...

When she was just 16, Juma Xipaia of Brazil’s Indigenous Xipaya people gave an interview in which she foresaw a challenging destiny for herself. “My future? Fighting for the Indigenous cause,” she ...

Brazil’s largest Indigenous organization has launched the country’s first Native-led strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on Aug. 9.

Indigenous women leaders don’t only sustain life in their territories; they are also active defenders of water, seeds, ancestral knowledge and biodiversity. Together, they lead environmental ...

Raoni warns against highways, rail projects and river shipping Leader urges Lula to protect Indigenous lands under law COP30 highlights Indigenous calls for a say in forest management BELEM, Brazil, ...

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Brazil set out to host this year's United Nations climate talks with a promise to spotlight Indigenous peoples whose way of life depends on the Amazon rainforest. Those groups are ...