When I first arrived in Peru's Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve in 2005, a local youth surprised me with an offer to sell ...

Travel hundreds of miles down the Peruvian Amazon aboard heavily loaded cargo riverboats, navigating shallow sandbars and ...

ABC News documented countless gold mining camps along the Tambopata river.

LIMA (Reuters) -Rare images of the Mashco Piro, an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the remote Peruvian Amazon, were published on Tuesday by Survival International, showing dozens of the people on the ...

On the banks of the Madre de Dios river, dredges work day and night in search of gold, part of a scourge of illegal mining that is slowly devouring the Peruvian Amazon. This mega-diverse region of ...

Peruvian authorities have intensified efforts against illegal gold mining in the Amazon's Madre de Dios region.

A landmark ruling that an Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon could reclaim ancestral rainforests has been set aside by an appeals court in a move some legal experts called irregular. Kichwa ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Achuar Indigenous people from the community of José Olaya live near sites impacted by oil-related activity in and around their territory. According ...

Since 2003, Indigenous organizations have been calling for the establishment of Yavarí Mirim, an extensive reserve for hundreds of isolated Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon. The reserve is ...

The jungle, I knew, was dangerous. There were animals throughout southwestern Peru’s Manú National Park that could, if push came to shove, tear my face clean off. The Andean spectacled bear in the ...