Indigenous groups such as the Yanomamo and Kayapo have been living in the Amazon for thousands of years, slowly accumulating a detailed knowledge of the rainforest and methods to subsist from it. However, today they need to share the forests with a growing number of settlers who seek to tap into the Amazon's considerable natural resources.

2019年11月27日 · In the Ecuadorian Amazon there are between 130,000 and 146,000 indigenous people, making up 20% of the regional population. They are distributed among ten ethnic groups; the seven most populous include the Kichwa, Shuar, Achuar, Shiwar, Cofán, Siona-Secoya and Huaorani (Waorani).

The Yanomami, also spelled Yąnomamö or Yanomama, are a group of approximately 35,000 indigenous people who live in some 200–250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil.

The Amazon rainforest (Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica, Amazonía or usually Amazonia; French: Forêt amazonienne; Dutch: Amazoneregenwoud), also known in...

A multitude of tribes, customs, and cultures have evolved in the Amazon since people arrived there between 10,000-30,000 years ago. While archeologists previously assumed the size of the Amazon indigenous population was limited by poor soil quality and nomadic cultures, recent evidence indicates that pre-Columbian Amazon populations probably ...

2020年9月27日 · On his earliest Amazon expedition in 1961 — the first attempt to descend and map the Iriri River in central Brazil — Hemming lost one of his best friends to an uncontacted tribe.

Studies suggest that 11.8 percent of the Amazon's terra firme forests are anthropogenic in nature resulting from the careful management of biodiversity by indigenous people.

2022年11月12日 · Most importantly, there are more than 500 distinct Indigenous peoples in the Amazon rainforest. The Amazon is the lifeblood of a complex web of interconnected ecological systems. But this...

Historically, we know of hundreds of indigenous tribes in the Amazon rainforest, but many indigenous groups of South America have disappeared or been torn apart by the colonization process, disease, alcohol, forced labor, war, deforestation, mining, and agricultural development.