RICAURTE, Colombia (AlertNet) - Standing along the main highway that snakes through the southwestern province of Narino, Awa indigenous leader, Carlos Ortiz, points to the surrounding misty mountain ...

BRASILIA, Brazil – For generations, the Awa lived far from the rest of humanity, picking fruit, hunting pigs and monkeys and following the seasons' rhythms in their patch of the lush Brazilian Amazon ...

BRASILIA, BrazilBRASILIA, Brazil — For generations, the Awa lived far from the rest of humanity, picking fruit, hunting pigs and monkeys and following the seasons’ rhythms in their patch of the lush ...

SAO PAULO – Brazil's government has failed to comply with a court order to protect the Awa indigenous people in the Amazon jungles, a British-based Indian rights group said Thursday. Survival ...

Many Awa Indians have had little to no contact with the outside world, but that is beginning to change. Their way of life is being threatened by illegal loggers.

Small groups of Guajajara Indians, the Awá’s neighbors in the Amazon, reportedly battled the blaze for days without the assistance of government agents until Brazil’s Environment Ministry launched a ...

A deadline for the removal of illegal settlers from the lands of a threatened tribe in Brazil has passed without action, according to a British-based advocacy group for indigenous people's rights. The ...