Days after the fatal shooting of a leader of an indigenous group in the Peruvian Amazon, the 41-year-old ... Olivia Arévalo Lomas, of the Shipibo-Conibo people, died Thursday after being shot ...

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 ...

Since 2003, Indigenous organizations have been calling for the establishment of Yavarí Mirim, an extensive reserve for hundreds of isolated Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon. The reserve ...

People gathered in a circle three-deep to ... is the hub of the logging industry in the Peruvian Amazon. Until a decade ago, global demand for mahogany was rapidly depleting the surrounding ...

“This is an example of how unscrupulous people turn this beautiful paradise into a desert-like area,” the general says. This section of the Peruvian Amazon, known as La Pampa, is now under the ...

To help our people,” says Walter ... The city of Iquitos is the gateway to the Peruvian Amazon and the centre of ayahuasca tourism. Although it is unreachable by road – accessed only by ...

An ongoing federal highway construction project in Peru ... Peru’s Amazon is facing mounting concerns by Indigenous leaders and legal experts. Meant to help transport goods and people in the ...

Researcher Japhy Wilson tells The Conversation Weekly podcast the surreal story of what happened in one Peruvian city in the Amazon jungle during the first wave of COVID.

It’s estimated that this is the main source of employement for up to 30,000 people, a number that ... gold mined from the peatlands of the Peruvian Amazon enters the global supply chain, as ...