In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous communities face growing threats from organized crime, yet are largely invisible to the state, says a new report.

New photos and rare video of an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the Peruvian Amazon show a collection of the people emerging from a rain forest – perhaps due to encroaching logging operations ...

The California Senate has unanimously approved a resolution to review and eventually end the state's imports of crude oil ...

An aerial view shows a deforested area of the Amazon jungle in southeast Peru caused by illegal mining, during a Peruvian military operation to destroy illegal machinery and equipment used by ...

In a conciliatory move, Peru’s government promised Amazon Indians on Monday to ask Congress to revoke decrees that native groups say would make it easier to exploit their lands for oil, gas and ...

Dozens of uncontacted people deep in the Peruvian Amazon have been captured on camera just several miles from a number of logging areas, a human rights group said, and they are believed to be from ...

A group of indigenous protesters in Peru's remote Amazon region attacked two oil tankers with gasoline bombs apparently because they are angry about changes by the government to social oil funds ...

Now, Indigenous Peruvians face a similar challenge from CNPC. The Amazon's Indigenous people have acquired great knowledge of the forest through thousands of years of observation, including how to ...

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.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Forensic teams have begun the long-delayed exhumation of members of an Amazon tribe that suffered devastating losses during Peru's 1980-2000 conflict with Shining Path rebels ...

In less than a year, several of Peru's Cacataibo and Ashaninka tribespeople have been murdered in the Amazon by suspected coca growers and drug traffickers.

Indigenous communities, especially in the Amazon, have some of Peru's lowest vaccination rates, said Julio Mendigure, who heads health policy for the groups at the country's health ministry.