New roads bring changes to the regions they traverse. They can enable job opportunities, access to medicine and health care, ...

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 ...

On the banks of the Madre de Dios river, dredges work day and night in search of gold, part of a scourge of illegal mining that is slowly devouring the Peruvian Amazon. This mega-diverse region of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of uncontacted people deep in the Peruvian Amazon have been captured on camera just several miles from a number of logging ...

In 2003, Indigenous organizations petitioned the Peruvian government to create Yavarí Mirim, an Indigenous reserve on the ...

Peru's reclusive Mashco Piro ethnic group recently used bows and arrows to attack loggers suspected of encroaching on their territory in the Amazon, according to a regional Indigenous organization.

Tracking the impact of COVID-19 in Peru's remote Amazonian jungle with spotty cell phone service is a daunting task. But, this is precisely what ICFJ Knight fellow Fabiola Torres and her team at Salud ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mennonite colonies first began appearing in Peru’s rainforests around 2017, and deforestation due to their activities has spiked from zero in 2017 ...

Lead is a toxic metal, and its widespread use has led to significant environmental pollution and public health problems in many parts of the world. This has led the WHO to include it on a list of ten ...

A major geographical wonder in South America, the Amazon River flows some 4,000 miles from Peru to Brazil's Atlantic coast, making it the second-longest river in the world. Amazon River cruises ...