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 ...

PORTO VELHO, Brazil - Brazilian environmental agents seized the equivalent of more than 5,000 truckloads of timber in an operation targeting one of the most heavily logged regions of the Amazon ...

Johan Eliasch, a Swedish-British billionaire better known for building a global sportswear empire, made an unexpected move in 2005. He bought around 400,000 acres of Amazon rainforest in Brazil, not ...

Members of an Indigenous tribe who live deep in Peru's Amazon rainforest and avoid contact with outsiders have been reported entering a neighboring village in what activists consider an alarming sign ...