International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples on August 9 is an annual United Nations holiday celebrating and honoring the estimated 476 million Indigenous Peoples living in the world today.

NEW YORK — Miguel Guimaraes Vasquez fought for years to protect his homeland in the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade, even laboring under death threats from drug ...

Scientists warn that the Amazon is close to a tipping point Global warming could see parts of rainforest turn into savannah Growing recognition of indigenous role in conserving forest LIMA, Sept 9 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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 ...

BELEM – Indigenous people are used to adapting, so when the power failed at their kickoff event at this year's United Nations climate talks, they rolled with it. Participants from around the world ...

Colombia is vying for a place in the global race to produce renewable energy. One desert region on its Caribbean coast is ...

KITIMAT, Canada (Reuters) - When Maureen Nyce, the new chief of the Haisla First Nation, donned a hard hat and safety vest for an August visit to the site of the Cedar LNG pipeline, she did so not as ...

BELEM – Indigenous people filled the streets, paddled the waterways and protested at the heart of the venue to make their voices heard during the United Nations climate talks that were supposed to ...

SIMOJOVEL, Mexico (AP) — At a recent service in the remote southern Mexican community of Simojovel, Catholic and Mayan symbolism mingled at the altar as the deacon — his wife beside him — read the ...

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A selection of Inuit artifacts returned by the Vatican is now at the Canadian Museum of History, after First Nations, Inuit and Métis leaders for years called for the ...