An environmental activist fighting against the destruction of the Amazon rainforest was shot and killed in the Peruvian ...

Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a ...

An environmental activist campaigning against the destruction of the Amazon was shot and killed in the Peruvian jungle, local ...

Hipolito Quispehuaman was killed Saturday night in an Amazonian area of Peru, where attacks against environmental activists ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has stirred up a decades-old border controversy with Peru by accusing it of fully annexing ...

Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon who have only recently come into contact with the outside world say they want ...

A bus plunged into a ravine while carrying more than 60 people from the capital Lima to the jungle city of La Merced.

Dozens injured as bus travelling from Lima to Peru’s Amazon region overturns on highway in the Andes Mountains ...

Bats infected with rabies have attacked more than 500 indigenous people in Peru's Amazon and four children likely lost their lives in an outbreak of the disease, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.