They’re big, like an overweight Peruvian dog,” is how photographer Santiago Romaní describes giant otters (Pteronura ...

The no-contact principle was then included in the country’s Federal Constitution in 1988, which set new standards that ...

The Amazon Basin contains the world's largest system of rainforest and rivers. Two of these rivers, the Putumayo and the ...

FILE - A group of men pass in front of a sign announcing the limit of Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru's Amazon, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File) 31,018 people played the ...

This is the source of the Amazon River, so named for the National Geographic ... wife expedition had pinpointed a mountain stream in Peru called the Huaraco as the source of the Amazon.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peru’s top court has issued a landmark ruling recognizing the territorial rights of the Kichwa people within a protected area in the Amazon — marking a major ...

In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous communities face an escalating threat from organized crime, yet remain largely invisible to the state, according to a new report. For years, criminal groups have ...