In this photo provided by Funai, Babawru Akuntsu, top, rests beside Akyp, her newborn son, at the Regional Hospital of Vilhena in Vilhena, Rondonia state, Brazil on Dec. 9, 2025, one day after the ...
Babawru, a woman in her 40s, along with her mother and sister, believed they would be the last surviving members of the Akuntsu people Getty An Amazon tribe facing extinction just welcomed a new baby ...
When Brazil’s Indigenous protection agency announced that the Akuntsu people — a tribe reduced to just three women — had celebrated their first childbirth in 30 years, Amazon correspondent Gabriela Sá ...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Pugapia and her daughters Aiga and Babawru lived for years as the only surviving members of the Akuntsu, an Indigenous people decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of ...
A baby has been born to one of the only surviving members of an Indigenous tribe in the Amazon rainforest, providing newfound hope for both the tribe and their land. Babawru, a woman in her 40s, and ...