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, ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

The leaders presented evidence of the impact of oil and gas exploration at a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on ...

The leader of an indigenous community in Peru asked for the government to declare a state of emergency on Monday and accused illegal miners of using children as "human shields" in the Amazon.

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 — is covered ... Survival International told AP the recent appearance of dozens of uncontacted Mashco-Piro people near logging ...