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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of uncontacted people deep in the Peruvian Amazon have been captured on camera just several miles from a number of logging ...

An environmental activist campaigning against the destruction of the Amazon was shot and killed in the Peruvian jungle, local authorities said Sunday. Hipolito Quispehuaman was killed Saturday night ...

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, near the border with Brazil, a striking landform has stirred scientific curiosity and cultural reverence alike. Rising abruptly from the dense, flat jungle of Sierra del ...

I'm sitting cross-legged on the wood floor of my host's stilted, hand-built house. We're in Buen Peru, a Matsés village deep in the Peruvian Amazon. Alberto, the elder sitting across from me, bears a ...

Rise of the Beasts” featured Peru extensively, interest in the South American country spiked, particularly in the ancient ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Illegal gold mining has led to historical rates of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon, a recent analysis of satellite images shows. In the past ...

A local court in Peru today reversed a ruling against employees of a company charged with illegal deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon, effectively absolving them of crimes associated with converting ...

LIMA – Sadith Silvano’s crafts are born from ancient songs. Brush in hand, eyes on the cloth, the Peruvian woman paints as she sings. And through her voice, her ancestors speak. “When we paint, we ...

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 ...