The farm had been in the family since 1907. Instead of more pasture, they decided to give it back to the forest, one sapling ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Xingu Indigenous Park and Capoto/Jarina Indigenous Territory in Brazil cover an area larger than Belgium. The Indigenous territories are still ...

A federal judge in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state has ordered individuals, along with their employees, animals, machinery, equipment and movable property, to leave the Piripkura Indigenous Territory ...

With the recent certification of over 550,000 ha of native forest, Brazil has surpassed Bolivia to have the largest area of FSC-certified Amazon native forests in South America. Brasilia, Brazil - ...

In her 88 years, Antonia Alves has seen much hardship as a member of Brazil’s indigenous community, whose people have often been driven from their ancestral lands over conflicts with farmers and ...

Brazil went from 287 hectares of fragmented native vegetation in 1986 to 163 hectares in 2024. These are patches of original ...

Around 33 million people inhabit the Amazon biome and roughly 2.7 million of them (9.2% of the population) are indigenous people, belonging to 350 different ethnic groups, 60 of which live in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Xerente Indigenous people, part of a fire brigade formed by women, ignite fires as part of a controlled burn with dry palm leaves ...