Just like the Sentinelese tribal people who recently killed an American who ventured onto their Indian Ocean island, Amerindians from the Amazon rainforest reject all contact with the outside world.

There are more than 476 million Indigenous people living in more than 90 countries around the world. To Indigenous peoples, land is life. Find out more about them and the struggles they’re facing: ...

Peru has called on explorers to stay away from an isolated Amazon basin rainforest tribe after pictures of "uncontacted" tribal members were published online. The pictures show a family of Mascho-Piro ...

Peru's main indigenous group said on Wednesday it will ask the courts to halt an expansion of the country's largest natural gas field over concerns that new drilling will harm isolated tribes. Aidesep ...

- In Peru’s Madre de Dios region, Indigenous protection agents are at the forefront of managing contact with the isolated Mashco Piro tribe, which has made more frequent appearances for over a decade ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The proposed Yavarí Mirim Indigenous Reserve would have protected an area a fifth the size of Ireland in the Peruvian Amazon, home to several ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peru’s Congress rejected Friday a proposal to create a long-delayed Amazon reserve meant to protect uncontacted Indigenous tribes living in voluntary isolation along the border ...

A Kichwa tribal leader has been shot to death in an area of the Peruvian rain forest that’s seen high tensions between Indigenous people and illegal loggers. Quinto Inuma Alvarado was attacked as he ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A commission in Peru was scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to create a long-delayed reserve in a remote stretch of the Amazon that would protect five uncontacted tribes ...

LIMA (Reuters) - A Peruvian tribe filed a complaint on Tuesday with the ombudsman of the World Bank's International Finance Corp (IFC) against Maple Energy Plc, accusing the oil company of polluting ...