This week, Peruvian officials are set to consider the creation of a sprawling reserve in the country’s Amazon basin to protect groups of Indigenous people living in isolation from the rest of society.

The trial is due to start Tuesday for five men over the killing of an Indigenous Amazon leader, in a rare legal case that ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Friday traveled to an Amazon River island at the center of a territorial dispute with Colombia, where she affirmed Peru’s unquestionable ...

Peru is on the verge of rolling back several longstanding protections for Indigenous people and their territories, critics warn. Several bills working their way through Congress would loosen ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peru’s Congress rejected Friday a proposal to create a long-delayed Amazon reserve meant to protect uncontacted Indigenous tribes living in voluntary isolation along the border ...

A shifting riverbank threatens Colombia’s main access to the Amazon waterway, as residents warn the region’s economies are intertwined and borders 'as fluid as the river' - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Members of the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard who patrol the Peruvian Amazon, watching for coca crops being planted in the rainforest — a source of deforestation, violence, and bloodshed on their land.

Government agencies in Peru have voted against establishing a new reserve meant to protect Indigenous people living in part of the country’s Amazon basin from outside incursions. Indigenous groups in ...