By Aimee Gabay An ongoing federal highway project that will cross through protected areas and Indigenous lands in Peru’s ...

Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon have urged the government to halt oil and gas projects that threaten their lands, ...

Researcher Japhy Wilson tells The Conversation Weekly podcast the surreal story of what happened in one Peruvian city in the ...

Indigenous organizations petitioned the Peruvian government to create Yavarí Mirim, an Indigenous reserve on the Amazon ...

A city official in the remote Brazilian Amazon village of Envira told CNN that five members of the Kulina tribe are on the run after being accused of murdering, butchering and eating a farmer in a ...

There’s a chance the gold ring on your finger or the chain around your neck has a link to the prolific destruction of the ...

Gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon has done more damage to peatlands in the last two years than in the previous three decades ...

Gold mining in Peru’s Amazon is now destroying carbon-storing peatlands at an alarming rate. In just two years, over half of ...

Indigenous Leader in Peru Says Illegal Miners Use Children as 'Human Shields' in the Amazon LIMA (Reuters ... mines that have left at least thirty people dead in the past two years.

Approximately 75% of the Peruvian Amazon — home to 21 Indigenous groups ... recent appearance of dozens of uncontacted Mashco-Piro people near logging concessions inside their territory ...

Approximately 75% of the Peruvian Amazon — home to 21 Indigenous groups ... recent appearance of dozens of uncontacted Mashco-Piro people near logging concessions inside their territory ...