The Peruvian Mari Luz Canaquiri and her colleagues won a historic ruling that holds the Marañón River as a subject of a right ...

This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. At the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues — ...

The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical South America, form a rounded crown on its head from which its oval-shaped ...

Even as a frequent traveler, there are a few things I wish I had known before visiting Peru to see Cusco, Macchu Picchu, and ...

Hundreds of people took part in the annual Good ... and illegal interests,” said Vladimir Pinto, the Peru field coordinator for Amazon Watch, an environmental advocacy group.

We do this not only for us, but for all of humanity and all beings.” For Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari of Peru, a winner of ...

So many people come to Peru to visit Lima ... Our four days in the Amazon were soul-satisfying, and another one of my favorite experiences was spending a leisurely day at Lake Piuray, a small ...

The incident was not the first – nor the last – of the oil spills that have plagued the Marañón River and the people living along its banks. The watercourse, which is a lifeblood of Peru’s ...

Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari has won the Goldman Environmental Prize for her part in the campaign to grant Peru’s Marañón ...