BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe who approached a riverine community in Brazil’s Amazon returned voluntarily to his people less than 24 hours later, Brazilian ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mongabay interviewed Antenor Vaz, an international expert on recognition methodologies and protection policies for Indigenous peoples in isolation ...

- 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 ...

In Colombia’s Amazon, two communities have worked for more than a decade to guard their territory and to protect the right of other Indigenous peoples to remain isolated. The community of Manacaro and ...

An area of forest larger than England could be cleared by 2050 in one of the best-preserved parts of the Brazilian Amazon, a new report warns. It says the main drivers of deforestation in the Middle ...