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 ...

The giant Belo Monte hydroelectric dam complex built on the Xingu River in the northern Brazilian state of Pará is the fourth-largest dam in the world (after the Chinese Three Gorges Dam and Xiluodu ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Kayapó leaders and artists from the Central Brazilian Amazon are visiting Purdue University in early March. There will be a public film screening and discussion of Kayapó ...

Raoni Metuktire Kayapó has battled against deforestation all his life and is inviting Brazil’s president to see the damage to his land Flying low over the Kayapó Indigenous territory, the poisoning of ...

On the last day of their visit, a health team volunteer takes time off to play with a Kayapo child. Photos by Reuters An Amazon basin people finds ways to survive and thrive as a modern world ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – An Indian tribe that has had no formal contact with Western civilization has been located in a remote Amazon region, federal authorities said Friday. The Metyktire tribe, with ...

One day in 2014, Belém, a member of Brazil’s Kayapo tribe, went deep into the forest to hunt macaws and parrots. He was helping to prepare for a coming-of-age ceremony, in which young men are given ...

This story appears in the January 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was tempting to think we were going back in time, slipping the bonds of the modern world for tribal life in one of the ...

The Kayapó people of the Amazon are excellent guardians of the forest but big business interests and a change to Brazil's constitution could threaten the ecosystem they have managed to preserve until ...

This article analyzes a more than two-decade long partnership between the Kayapó, an Amazonian indigenous group, and a large environmental NGO. Drawing from political ecology and science and ...

You destroy our lands, poison the planet and sow death, because you are lost. And soon it will be too late to change Raoni Metuktire is chief of the indigenous Brazilian Kayapó people For many years ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There is almost nowhere in the world that looks like the Amazon rainforest, and there is almost no one who looks like ...