This week, Peruvian officials are set to consider the creation of a sprawling reserve in the country’s Amazon basin to protect groups of Indigenous people living in isolation from the rest of society.

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 ...

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 ...

The jungle, I knew, was dangerous. There were animals throughout southwestern Peru’s Manú National Park that could, if push came to shove, tear my face clean off. The Andean spectacled bear in the ...

Peru's reclusive Mashco Piro ethnic group recently used bows and arrows to attack loggers suspected of encroaching on their territory in the Amazon, according to a regional Indigenous organization.

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 ...