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 ...

The discovery of its market potential in the 1990s led to destructive harvesting and genetic degradation as people filed to palm swamps in the Peruvian Amazon to collect the fruits. Sustainable ...

At the same time, drug trafficking is rising in the Peruvian Amazon region and gangs are taking control of mines in the Andes. Amid the outcry after Mr Flores’ killing, President Dina Boluarte ...

Days after the fatal shooting of a leader of an indigenous group in the Peruvian Amazon, the 41-year-old ... Olivia Arévalo Lomas, of the Shipibo-Conibo people, died Thursday after being shot ...

To help our people,” says Walter ... The city of Iquitos is the gateway to the Peruvian Amazon and the centre of ayahuasca tourism. Although it is unreachable by road – accessed only by ...

“This is an example of how unscrupulous people turn this beautiful paradise into a desert-like area,” the general says. This section of the Peruvian Amazon, known as La Pampa, is now under the ...