This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... As many as a hundred Awá still live as nomads in the Amazon forest, despite increasing pressure from illegal ...

In Manaus, Biden will visit the rainforest and see local, indigenous and other leaders who are working to preserve the region ...

The Amazon by day is a place of plants, water, and silence. The overwhelming grandeur of the tropical rain forest lies in its subtlety. There are no herds of ungulates as on the Serengeti Plain ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic ... This part of the Amazon is also home to two indigenous nations, the Kichwa and the Waorani, who live in settlements ...