This week, Peruvian officials are set to consider the creation of a sprawling reserve in the country’s Amazon basin to protect groups of Indigenous people living in isolation from the rest of society.

Indigenous territories and the people who defend them in the Peruvian Amazon face a litany of growing threats, activist groups warn in a recent report. In defending their land rights in the face of ...

BOGOTA, Colombia -- Peru's Congress on Friday rejected a proposal to create a long-delayed Amazon reserve meant to protect uncontacted Indigenous tribes living in voluntary isolation along the border ...

As mineral prices rise, Peru is witnessing a mining rush, legal and illegal, artisanal and industrial, that is causing ...

The use of seabird poop as a fertilizer for corn and other food crops supported the expansion of pre-Inca civilizations ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An attack by armed assailants on a patrol of a mission by the Indigenous Wampis guards last week in the Peruvian Amazon has again brought into focus the issue of illegal gold ...

Government agencies in Peru have voted against establishing a new reserve meant to protect Indigenous people living in part of the country’s Amazon basin from outside incursions. Indigenous groups in ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peru’s Congress rejected Friday a proposal to create a long-delayed Amazon reserve meant to protect uncontacted Indigenous tribes living in voluntary isolation along the border ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. UCAYALI REGION, Peru — Peru has passed a controversial law that makes highway construction in border areas and maintaining trucking roads in the ...