Illegal gold mining is spreading into new parts of Peru’s Amazon, and experts say it is driving a growing environmental and ...

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 ...

A new regional conservation area has been created in Loreto, the largest region in Peru’s Amazon. The Medio Putumayo Algodón Regional Conservation Area is the fourth protected natural area in the ...

Studies in Ucayali show degraded soils increase wildfire risk, while productive restoration has reduced fires by up to ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Friday traveled to an Amazon River island at the center of a territorial dispute with Colombia, where she affirmed Peru’s unquestionable ...

The Amazon's biggest trees store disproportionately more carbon than smaller trees do, new study finds. But in the Peruvian ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in the ...

A wall shows the phrase "No stealing in the community," signed by the criminal gang CV, or "'Comando Vermelho" at the entrance to the community in the Vila da Barca neighborhood in Belem, Brazil, on ...