Once estimated as 20,000 in the territory, hundreds of illegal miners still remain and may expand business at the slightest ...

An indigenous ritual called Kuarup takes place in Mato Grosso. Penha Goés, a 22-year-old member of the Yanomami Indian tribe, in Amazonas. This was photographed in 1997. Penha Goés, aged 39 ...

Mining areas within the nearly 10-million-hectare indigenous land in the states of Amazonas and Roraima, in northern Brazil, ...