New data show Peru has the Amazon’s largest oil and gas footprint and most lease blocks in rainforest areas overlap ...

A newly shared video is giving people an unusually clear look at the Mashco Piro, a rarely seen Indigenous community living in voluntary isolation deep in the Amazon rainforest. The footage has been ...

A researcher’s quest to preserve tracts of the Amazon basin leads him into wild adventure.

What’s lurking in and around the rainforest canopy? That’s a hard question to answer, especially in tall and dense forests. Traditional tracking methods, like camera traps, often miss out on elusive ...

“In a community-based conservation system, if everything is built correctly, then not only is there no overhunting, there is ...

For the journalist Dom Phillips, the Javari Valley represented a test for the Amazon and its future. ‘More threatened than it ...

Visiting Peru was an 11-day family adventure. After taking a three-night cruise on the Amazon River and embarking on jungle ...

This week brings something new — an Armchair Traveler series I’m exploring for 2026. Take a mini-trip with me as we venture in a literary way to a new country each month. Grab your virtual passport, b ...

Peru is located on the Pacific coast of South America, just south of the equator. It is considered one of the most ...