Dressed in loincloths and speaking an unknown language, the Mashco-Piro, one of the last isolated peoples on Earth, are increasingly venturing out of their forests in Peru — to the government’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this frame from video provided by Survival International, Dabi Nishida, of the Yine Indigenous group, maneuvers a boat near a ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) – Members of an Indian tribe that has long lived in voluntary isolation in Peru’s southeastern Amazon attempted to make contact with outsiders for a second time since 2011, leading to ...

Jerson del Aguila was working for a logging company in the Peruvian rainforest when he came across a family of naked tribespeople. It was the first of two occasions in 2021 on which he would meet ...

Since 2003, Indigenous organizations have been calling for the establishment of Yavarí Mirim, an extensive reserve for hundreds of isolated Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon. The reserve is ...

Madre de Dios is a remote southeastern Amazon region bordering Brazil and Bolivia. It is one of Peru's most biodiverse areas, but it has also been a hot spot for illegal gold mining, logging and other ...

BOGOTA — Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru’s Amazon rain forest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists consider an ...