Organized crime and illicit economies emerged in 2025 as major drivers worsening deforestation across the Amazon region in ...

Dozens of uncontacted people deep in the Peruvian Amazon have been captured on camera just several miles from a number of logging areas, a human rights group said, and they are believed to be from the ...

LIMA (Reuters) -Rare images of the Mashco Piro, an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the remote Peruvian Amazon, were published on Tuesday by Survival International, showing dozens of the people on the ...

However, there is still no sign of a coherent policy capable of tackling environmental crime and the corruption that facilitates it, let alone any action. Part of this is due to the political chaos ...

As I backflipped off the skiff into the tannin-filled black waters of an Amazon River tributary, I briefly remembered that the jungle’s largest fish, the paiche, which can grow to be as much as 15 ...

Achuar Indigenous people from the community of José Olaya live near sites impacted by oil-related activity in and around their territory. According to reports by Peru’s environmental authority, toxic ...

To listen with urgency and humility to the cries of the Amazon and its Indigenous people was what Sr. Zully Rojas Quispe asked the church during her speech at the Vatican's synod for the Amazon region ...

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 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are calling for the government to stop oil and gas projects in their territory took their case to an international human rights body ...