Brazil’s government on Monday began removing thousands of non-Indigenous people from two native territories in a move that will affect thousands who live in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

In Mato Grosso do Sul, a southern state bordering Paraguay, Indigenous people who tried to reclaim the lands from which they ...

Brazil’s government on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, began removing non-indigenous people from two Indigenous territories in a move that will affect thousands living in the Amazon rainforest’s heart.

Brazil launched a military operation in late 2024 to clear out illegal gold mining from one of the most heavily impacted ...

Protection of Brazil's Indigenous communities from violence by land grabbers and ranchers was "insufficient" in 2023, according to a report published on Monday, dashing hopes that the situation would ...

On July 17, 2025, Brazil’s Congress passed the so-called “PL da Devastação” (Destruction Bill) with no public debate or ...

Indigenous groups take part in protest against the prospective creation of a benchmark time limit that threatens to strip some their lands, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024.

Brazil Potash says it has consulted the Mura people and that the majority support the project. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said 90% of representatives ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Armed men backed by farmers in trucks and tractors attacked Indigenous people reclaiming land in Brazil's farming state of Mato Grosso do Sul at the weekend, injuring 11 of them, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Indigenous chants and the rattle of maracas resounded Thursday in a Rio de Janeiro park, where Brazil's Tupinambá people gathered to celebrate the homecoming of a sacred ...

Raoni, who became a symbol of the fight for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest, called upon Brazil's president on Friday, July 28, 2023 to defend the rights of Indigenous people.

How Brazil's indigenous communities are employing ancestral stewardship in a race to save one of the world’s most threatened ecosystems.