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In Amazon Rainforest, 'a Source of Hope' Is Born

In Tribe of 3 Women, No Men:
'How Can I Be Pregnant?'

Feb 28, 2026 1:27 PM CST

In Tribe of 3 Women, No Men: 'How Can I Be Pregnant?'

Birth of baby boy in Brazil's tiny Akuntsu tribe offers new hope for Indigenous group's lineage

(Newser) - Pugapia and her daughters, Aiga and Babawru, lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people wiped out by a government-backed push to develop parts of the Amazon rainforest. Many expected the Akuntsu to vanish when the women died, but that changed in December, when...

'Silent Genocides' Could Wipe
Out 100 Groups in 10 Years

NEW REPORT

Oct 27, 2025 10:30 AM CDT

'Silent Genocides' Could Wipe Out 100 Groups in 10 Years

Logging, mining, and disease push isolated communities to the brink

(Newser) - Half of the world's uncontacted Indigenous groups could vanish within a decade unless urgent action is taken, according to a new report from Survival International. The advocacy group estimates there are at least 196 uncontacted groups worldwide, with the vast majority living in the Amazon rainforest. These communities, often...

Deep in the Amazon, an
'Alarming' Development

Deep in the Amazon, an 'Alarming' Development

Isolated Mashco Piro tribe members emerge in neighboring village, may soon clash with loggers

(Newser) - What the AP terms an "alarming" development has emerged regarding Peru's uncontacted Mashco Piro tribe, an Indigenous group hunkered down in the Amazon rainforest and that generally avoids contact with the rest of the world. Members of the tribe have popped up in a neighboring village to their...

American Arrested After Trying to Bring Coke to Isolated Tribe

American Is Kept in Custody
After Stunt With Remote Tribe

UPDATED

Apr 17, 2025 7:41 AM CDT

American Is Kept in Custody After Stunt With Remote Tribe

24-year-old's next court appearance in India is near the end of the month

(Newser) - An American YouTuber who was arrested after trying to establish contact with a remote tribe in India did not get a break from the courts on Thursday. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, was further detained in custody, reports the AP . He is next scheduled to appear in court in Port Blair,...

Appearance of Isolated
Tribe Draws Worry in Peru

Appearance of Isolated Tribe Draws Worry in Peru

Survival International calls it 'a humanitarian disaster in the making'

(Newser) - More than 50 members of an isolated Amazonian tribe have been spotted gathering on the banks of a river in rare footage out of Peru. Dozens of members of the Mashco Piro tribe appeared along the Las Piedras river in Madre de Dios province near the village of Monte Salvado,...

Ecuadorians Deliver a Hard No on Oil Drilling in Amazon

Ecuadorians on Oil Drilling
Near Uncontacted Tribes: Nope

Aug 21, 2023 9:35 AM CDT

Ecuadorians on Oil Drilling Near Uncontacted Tribes: Nope

As presidential election heads to a runoff

(Newser) - In a historic decision, Ecuadorians voted on Sunday against the oil drilling of a protected area in the Amazon that's home to two uncontacted tribes and serves as a biodiversity hotspot. With over 90% of the ballots counted by early Monday, around six in 10 Ecuadorians rejected the oil...

Lula Airlifts Starving
Tribespeople, Points
Finger at Bolsonaro

Jan 24, 2023 7:27 AM CST

Lula Airlifts Starving Tribespeople, Points Finger at Bolsonaro

Hundreds of Yanomami children have reportedly died as a result of illegal mining

(Newser) - Brazil's president has accused his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro of committing genocide against the remote Amazon tribe of Yanomami, whose territory has been infiltrated by illegal miners . President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who said he was "shocked" while visiting tribespeople in Brazil's northern state of Roraima...

'Man of the Hole' Dies,
Rendering a Tribe Extinct

'Man of the Hole' Dies, Rendering a Tribe Extinct

Last surviving member of Indigenous tribe in Brazil had been tracked for decades

(Newser) - No one will be bothering the "Man of the Hole" anymore. Officials from Funai, Brazil's Indigenous protection agency, say the last surviving member of a native tribe who'd been tracked for years has died, leaving his tribe officially extinct, reports the BBC . The body of the man,...

Set Foot on This Island and
You May Not Leave Alive

Set Foot on This Island and You May Not Leave Alive

Isolated tribe on North Sentinel Island isn't a fan of outsiders

(Newser) - Sometimes paradise is better off lost: Off the coast of India in the Bay of Bengal, a Manhattan-size island called North Sentinel Island boasts a deep green canopy of trees, stretches of sandy beaches, coral reef barriers—and a population that's decidedly hostile to outsiders, who aren't likely...

Isolated Tribe Says
Elders Were Murdered

Aug 1, 2014 9:41 AM CDT

Isolated Tribe Says Elders Were Murdered

Also, video shows young members' first contact

(Newser) - A video that purports to show footage of first contact with a formerly isolated tribe on the Brazil-Peru border has been released by Brazil's FUNAI agency, along with some disturbing news from tribe members themselves. As had been hinted at in previous reports, some of the younger members say...