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) - Indigenous tribes in Peru's Amazon say the government has left them to fend for themselves against the coronavirus, risking "ethnocide by inaction," according to a letter from natives ...
A megaport project is rising on the coast of Peru, and it is backed by major foreign investors. This port, located in the town of Chancay, sits about 60 kilometers north of Lima. It aims to become one ...
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 (AP) — 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 ...
FILE - Cut down trees lie within view of the Cordillera Azul National Park, seen in the background near Chambira community, in Peru's Amazon, Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo ...
Peru’s Indigenous Shawi people continue to contest a plan to build a highway through their territory in the country’s Amazonian region, citing fears about losing their land — even as local authorities ...
Talisman Energy (TLM) is abandoning oil exploration in a block of forest in the Peruvian Amazon, reports Amazon Watch, an activist group that has campaigned against the driller since 2004. It wasn’t ...
Sleeping in was always an option, but most of the 11 teachers on a recent trip to Peru woke up each day at 5 a.m. to watch the sunrise on a canopy walkway, with nothing but the vastness of the Amazon ...
Peruvian Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo is pictured at the Jesuit headquarters in Rome Sept. 22, 2021. (CNS photo/Junno Arocho Esteves) Cardinal Pedro Barreto, 79, the archbishop of ...
Pure Amazon is just the second new vessel to set sail in Peru's Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve in more than a decade. There ...