Peruvian journalist Raul Celis Lopez has been shot in the head by two unidentified men on a motorbike as he was heading to work in Iquitos by motorbike taxi on Wednesday. Lopez had reported from ...

Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, but because the land has been depleted of its water. A common mining ...

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 banks of a ...

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 ...

Video shows reclusive tribe searching for food on beach in the Amazon 01:09. Peru's reclusive Mashco Piro ethnic group recently used bows and arrows to attack loggers suspected of encroaching on ...

In 2003, Indigenous organizations petitioned the Peruvian government to create Yavarí Mirim, an Indigenous reserve on the Amazon border with Brazil and Colombia, spanning 1 million hectares (2.5 ...

Footage shows the isolated Mashco Piro tribe just miles from where logging companies have been granted concessions in the Peruvian Amazon.

These Peruvian women left the Amazon, but their homeland still inspires their songs and crafts. MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ. Sat, November 23, 2024 at 1:42 PM UTC. 6 min read.

These Peruvian women left the Amazon, but their homeland still inspires their songs and crafts. Many Shipibo-Konibo craftswomen migrated from their Indigenous communities in the Amazon to Peru's ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — 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.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — 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 ...