Photos of isolated Indians near Peru's border are prompting new efforts to find and protect such people from threats to their land and lives - although senior officials have questioned whether they even exist. ...more

June 5, 2008

Brazil's government agreed to release stunning photos of Amazon Indians firing arrows at an airplane so that the world can better understand the threats facing one of the few tribes still living in near-total isolation from civilization, officials said Friday. ...more

May 31, 2008

Heavily armed federal police swarmed an Amazon town and seized more than 500 truckloads of illegally cut hardwood that were confiscated but abandoned last week when rioting residents and loggers drove out environmental authorities. ...more

February 24, 2008

The crime scene - a once-wooded landscape marked by tire tracks and tree stumps - makes the victim, Verna Potter, feel physically violated. ...more

January 2, 2008