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 ...

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 ...

The Kayapó Indigenous Territory has emerged as a major hotspot for illegal gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon’s Xingu River Basin, a major Amazon tributary. That’s according to a new report from the ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Members of the Kayapó indigenous tribe have lifted a blockade of a key grains export road on the fifth day of protest after the state government of Pará agreed to talk and hear ...

COLIDER, Brazil -- Researchers in the state prosecutor's office in Cuiaba, surrounded by annotated maps of central Brazil and stacks of file folders, believe they have a pretty good idea why the ...

The rule was ‘don’t go without a Kayapo.’ But one afternoon, even a member of the Brazilian indigenous tribe got Kimberley Whitestar lost in the jungle. It was last summer, during the University of ...

COLIDER, Brazil -- At first, few believed the story that two brothers told about four unknown Indians who suddenly appeared to them one afternoon on the outskirts of their village. Like most Kayapo ...