Peruvian authorities 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 tourists last year.

RIGHTSs campaigners and politicians condemned a video showing women from a protected and primitive tribe dancing for tourists in exchange for food on India’s far-flung Andaman Islands.

Thousands of stories like John B Keane’s The Field in the 227 million hectares sold or leased in large-scale land deals since 2001. Denise Hall reports.

ONE of the world’s oldest dialects, which traces its origins to tens of thousands of years ago, has become extinct after the last person to speak it died on a remote Indian island.

A VIDEO, made with the help of US missionaries, depicting Amazon Indians burying children alive is “faked” and inciting racial hatred, a group campaigning for tribal rights said.

One of Brazil’s last uncontacted Indian tribes has been spotted in the far western Amazon jungle near the Peruvian border, the National Indian Foundation says.

Lindsay Lohan avoided confrontation the other night at a jewellery launch, after dozens of protesters turned up to rail against company De Beers supposed mining policy.

A GROUP of previously uncontacted South American Indians have made a desperate plea to the outside world after giving up their struggle against deforestation.