De Miguel’s lens trained on the women encouraged them to discuss how they were treated as they became the first female chiefs in their region of the Amazon, with Maisonnave interpreting Portuguese.

Startling new footage has shown members of an uncontacted Amazon tribe up close and personal for the first time ever. The Massaco tribe consists of just over 200 people, all of whom lived ...

The tribe is increasing in numbers, says Meirelles but notes that un-contacted groups in other regions of the Amazon are in danger of coming to conflict with each other due to illegal logging.

These women care for orphaned animals, but it's not the same as human breastfeeding. Deep in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, the Awa tribe lives in harmony with nature, practising traditions that ...