In a global first, Peru recognizes stingless bees as rights-bearing species, reshaping how insects fit into environmental law ...

Stingless bees from the Amazon have become the first insects to be granted legal rights anywhere in the world, in a ...

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 ...

Sara Flores sat against the wall, flanked by family, in a traditional Shipibo-Conibo wrap skirt and blouse. She was attending the opening, this past spring, of her solo show “Sara Flores. Non Nete. A ...

SUCUSARI, Peru (AP) — It is the longest bridge ever built in Peru, a massive structure of cement and iron spanning the Nanay River as it connects to untouched areas of the Peruvian Amazon So far, it ...

Peru’s Indigenous Shawi people continue to contest a plan to build a highway through their territory in the country’s Amazonian region, citing fears about losing their land — even as local authorities ...

Sleeping in was always an option, but most of the 11 teachers on a recent trip to Peru woke up each day at 5 a.m. to watch the sunrise on a canopy walkway, with nothing but the vastness of the Amazon ...

As I backflipped off the skiff into the tannin-filled black waters of an Amazon River tributary, I briefly remembered that the jungle’s largest fish, the paiche, which can grow to be as much as 15 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are calling for the government to stop oil and gas projects in their territory took their case to an international human rights body ...

To listen with urgency and humility to the cries of the Amazon and its Indigenous people was what Sr. Zully Rojas Quispe asked the church during her speech at the Vatican's synod for the Amazon region ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Peru has descended into one of the worst political crises in its history and protection of its Amazon rainforest is failing, according to a report published Thursday. Peru is home to ...