Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard patrols their ancestral land armed with spears, machetes and a ...

By Alexander Villegas SANTA ROSA, Peru (Reuters) -Near a remote bend of the Patoyacu River in Peru's northern Amazon, Wilmer ...

Speeding over to a muddy bank of Peru's Madre de Dios river in a motorboat, Karina Garay pointed to a small wooden structure.

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 ...

Peruvian indigenous groups equipped with remote sensing technology and satellite-based alerts have been helping to track and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Peru has descended into one of the worst political crises in its history and protection of its Amazon rainforest is failing, according to a report published today. Peru is home to the ...

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake has left a large part of the department of Amazonas, one of the poorest in Peru, in ruins. According to the Peruvian Geophysical Institute, the earthquake occurred at 5:52 a ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — As gold prices hover at record highs, a leading Catholic leader in Peru’s Amazon is urging countries that are destinations for the precious metal to help stem illegal mining that is ...

FILE - This Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 photo shows the deforestation of what was once pristine rainforest, caused by gold mining, during a government raid on illegal wildcat mining operations in La ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Peru has descended into one of the worst political crises in its history and protection of its Amazon rainforest is failing, according to a report published Thursday. Peru is home to ...