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

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Artisanal and small-scale gold mining employs more than 15 million people globally and generates a fifth of global gold ...

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

July saw the death of heavy metal godfather Ozzy Osbourne, the Black Sabbath lead singer whose influence in the genre spans generations.

Wealthy US-backed evangelical groups are sending drones to reach remote and uncontacted tribes, despite legal prohibitions ...

Utility workers in Peru's capital have discovered two pre-Incan tombs while expanding underground gas networks. One tomb was empty, but the other contained remains about 1,000 years old, along ...

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

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 ...

Grupo Perú is a coalition of three Indigenous Peoples organizations in Peru— Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP), National Association of Executors ...

Historic Partnership: Silvania and Grupo Perú, representing AIDESEP, ANECAP, and CONAP, join forces to develop the world's first Jurisdictional REDD+ Program on Indigenous lands in Peru, led by ...