Peru’s Congress has rejected a long-delayed proposal to create the Yavari Mirim Indigenous Reserve. That's a 1.17 ...

Last week, a government commission in Peru voted to nix plans for a vast 3 million acre conservation reserve in the Amazon that would have protected uncontacted peoples there. Peru is among the ...

One of the largest known uncontacted tribes on the planet has had recent interactions with outsiders, prompting concerns ...

The Mashco Piro tribe, an uncontacted group in the Peruvian Amazon, has been sighted near a village, raising concerns about ...

THE world’s largest uncontacted tribe known for killing outsiders could now face certain peril. The previously isolated Mashco Piro tribe, who roam the Amazon rainforest, have had increased ...

Madre de Dios is a remote southeastern Amazon region bordering Brazil and Bolivia. It is one of Peru’s most biodiverse areas, ...

In 2003, Indigenous organizations petitioned the Peruvian government to create Yavarí Mirim, an Indigenous reserve on the ...

Peru is considering whether to create the long-delayed Yavari Mirim Indigenous Reserve in a remote stretch of the Amazon that would protect five uncontacted tribes from outside encroachment. It ...

Concerns as isolated Mashco Piro tribe in Peru make unprecedented contact with a nearby village, amid an increase in logging on Indigenous land.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — In a rare encounter, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon, the country’s Indigenous affairs agency and local ...

One of the largest known uncontacted tribes on the planet has had recent interactions with outsiders, prompting concerns among activists that the extremely isolated society is in grave jeopardy. “It ...