Yahoo! Sports

From Brazil's rainforest to Rio de Janeiro, an all-Indigenous soccer team debuts with victory

MARICA, Brazil (AP) — When Sávio Conrado Mura left his Indigenous village of stilt houses located deep in the Amazon rainforest in early April, he departed with the hopes of representing his people as ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Amazon Indigenous are leaving rainforest for cities — and finding urban poverty

ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil — In 1976, Binan Tuku ventured to meet a Brazilian government's expedition on the banks of the Itui River in a remote area of the western Amazon rainforest. After some initial ...
MyJoyOnline

DR Congo’s Tshopo Province transfers 847,818 hectares of rainforest to indigenous communities

Authorities in Tshopo Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are set to transfer 847,818 hectares of rainforest ...
WKRG

Well-preserved Amazon rainforest on Indigenous lands can protect people from diseases, study finds

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Every time humans cut into the Amazon ...