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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Kayapó people's battle to save their land from flooding as the Bel Monte dam is built follows a pattern across the Americas The man pictured above is Raoni Txucarramãe, chief of the Kayapó people, ...
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 ...
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's indigenous people lost one of their pioneering leaders to COVID-19 on Wednesday with the death of Paulinho Payakan, a Kayapó chief who led protests against the Belo Monte ...