Researchers have described a new species of marsupial frog from the Andes of northern Peru, a tiny amphibian that broods its ...

New roads bring changes to the regions they traverse. They can enable job opportunities, access to medicine and health care, ...

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 ...

Rivers and fish are being poisoned with mercury, forests are felled and land devastated as illegal mining, fuelled in part by ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mongabay interviewed Julio Cusurichi Palacios, a prominent Indigenous leader from Peru, to hear his take on some of the latest and biggest events ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of uncontacted people deep in the Peruvian Amazon have been captured on camera just several miles from a number of logging ...

A major geographical wonder in South America, the Amazon River flows some 4,000 miles from Peru to Brazil's Atlantic coast, making it the second-longest river in the world. Amazon River cruises ...

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.

However, there is still no sign of a coherent policy capable of tackling environmental crime and the corruption that facilitates it, let alone any action. Part of this is due to the political chaos ...