Peru’s government is making a controversial effort to communicate with the Mashco Piro, an isolated indigenous tribe that has had almost no contact with the outside world. The project, announced ...

In an unusual development, members of an Amazon tribe who avoid contact with outsiders have been seen entering a village Indigenous advocates find that alarming and a sign of stress as a logging ...

LIMA, Peru-Pressed up against the remote jungle border with Brazil's Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, Peru's Amazonian region of Yavari Mirim has long been known as home to some of the last tribal ...

From the depths of Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public ...

(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 a tense ...

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 ...