For more than four decades, Kokoró Mekranotire has watched with dismay as outsiders have laid waste to ever-larger swaths of his Kayapó homeland. Loggers, gold miners, farmers, and land grabbers have ...

On a hot afternoon deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, Indigenous chief Megaron soaps himself and enjoys a quick swim in the ...

By Lais Morais and Adriano Machado PYKANY VILLAGE, Brazil, May 28 (Reuters) - Chief Megaron Txucarramae, a 75-year-old leader ...

The giant Belo Monte hydroelectric dam complex built on the Xingu River in the northern Brazilian state of Pará is the fourth-largest dam in the world (after the Chinese Three Gorges Dam and Xiluodu ...

On the last day of their visit, a health team volunteer takes time off to play with a Kayapo child. Photos by Reuters An Amazon basin people finds ways to survive and thrive as a modern world ...

Raoni Metuktire Kayapó has battled against deforestation all his life and is inviting Brazil’s president to see the damage to his land Flying low over the Kayapó Indigenous territory, the poisoning of ...

The Kayapó people of the Amazon are excellent guardians of the forest but big business interests and a change to Brazil's constitution could threaten the ecosystem they have managed to preserve until ...

You destroy our lands, poison the planet and sow death, because you are lost. And soon it will be too late to change Raoni Metuktire is chief of the indigenous Brazilian Kayapó people For many years ...

One day in 2014, Belém, a member of Brazil’s Kayapo tribe, went deep into the forest to hunt macaws and parrots. He was helping to prepare for a coming-of-age ceremony, in which young men are given ...

This story appears in the January 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was tempting to think we were going back in time, slipping the bonds of the modern world for tribal life in one of the ...

InfoAmazonia’s Amazônia Minada project has found an unusual rise in demand to mine for manganese last year in Brazil, one of the world’s top producers of the metal. Previously, only 1% of mining bids ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's indigenous people lost one of their pioneering leaders to COVID-19 on Wednesday with the death of Paulinho Payakan, a Kayapó chief who led protests against the Belo Monte ...