They’ve lived in isolation for centuries in the dense jungles of eastern Peru. Aug. 22, 2013— -- They’ve lived in isolation for centuries in the dense jungles of eastern Peru. But the Mascho-Piro ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this frame from video provided by Survival International, Dabi Nishida, of the Yine Indigenous group, maneuvers a boat near a ...

Experts warn the tribe faces life-threatening risks from forced contact, illegal logging, and drug trafficking, urging the Peruvian government to expand protections.

BOGOTA, Colombia — A commission in Peru was scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to create a long-delayed reserve in a remote stretch of the Amazon that would protect five uncontacted tribes from ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peru’s Congress rejected Friday a proposal to create a long-delayed Amazon reserve meant to protect uncontacted Indigenous tribes living in voluntary isolation along the border ...

Officials in Peru last week voted against a proposal to create an Indigenous reserve in the country’s Amazonian region, where isolated tribes face threats from logging, mining and drug trafficking.

Peruvian authorities say they are struggling to keep outsiders away from a clan of previously isolated Amazon Indians who began appearing on the banks of a jungle river popular with environmental ...

From the depths of Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public ...

Peru’s government is making a controversial effort to communicate with the Mashco Piro, an isolated indigenous tribe that has had almost no contact with the outside world. The project, announced ...

SAN MARTIN, Peru — Rolando Zumba, a gentle 59-year-old, wept, though the moment he described took place many years ago. Nothing has been the same since that day, when a park ranger took away his ...