Dozens of indigenous nations from different countries are calling for an oil drilling ban in the world's largest rainforest ...

The amendment eliminates the requirement that landowners or companies get state authorization before converting forested land ...

“To us, this is gravely concerning,” said Alvaro Masquez Salvador, a lawyer with the Indigenous Peoples program at Peru’s Legal Defense Institute. Masquez added that the reform sets a ...

“To us, this is gravely concerning,” said Alvaro Masquez Salvador, a lawyer with the Indigenous Peoples programme at Peru’s Legal Defense Institute. Masquez adds that the reform sets a ...

The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...

are edging closer to Indigenous communities, sparking conflict between people and predators reports Mongabay contributor James Hall. The puma, the Peruvian desert cat and the Andean cat have found ...

“To us, this is gravely concerning,” said Alvaro Masquez Salvador, a lawyer with the Indigenous Peoples programme at Peru’s Legal Defense Institute. Masquez adds that the reform sets a troubling ...

Indigenous, informal miners in Peru have won folk-hero status in their communities, making political attempts to remove them that much tougher. Interviews with dozens of people around Pamputa show ...