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

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

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

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 in the Peruvian Andes on Friday, killing at least 18 passengers, a health official said.

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.

Santiago Manuin, one of the most celebrated defenders of Peru's Amazon rainforest and the leader of the Awajún tribe, whose vast and besieged territory spans the country's mountainous northern ...

At least 18 people have been killed after a bus plunged into a ravine in the Peruvian Andes, health officials have said.