Deep in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, the Kichwa people of Pakayaku are quiet yet fierce protectors of the world. According to Mongabay, their mission is to protect their ancestral land from mining, ...

In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous women are opening their communities to visitors and sharing traditions shaped by centuries of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While there, he met a woman named Maria who works as a chef at an Amazonian restaurant. The two are now married. "I basically said ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Kichwa, Ticuna and Matsés women are leading forest patrols and training other women in the use of technology such as GPS, drones and satellite ...

Deep within the vast Amazon rainforest live tribes that have had little or no contact with the outside world. Hidden in remote regions of the jungle, these communities have maintained their ...