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 ...

Of all the travel dreams we’ve had, staying in a treehouse in the Amazon Rainforest has always been at the top. The Treehouse Lodge in the Peruvian Amazon is an actual dream come true for myriad ...

Peruvian police on Monday captured one of the killers of four Indigenous Amazon land defenders who were murdered protecting their territories from illegal loggers, police sources said.

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 ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peru’s Congress rejected Friday a proposal to create a long-delayed Amazon reserve meant to protect uncontacted Indigenous tribes living in voluntary isolation along the border ...

As I backflipped off the skiff into the tannin-filled black waters of an Amazon River tributary, I briefly remembered that the jungle’s largest fish, the paiche, which can grow to be as much as 15 ...

The Pure Amazon sailing through the Amazon Basin of Peru. “In the wild, anything can happen,” says Robinson Rodriguez, a naturalist, to our group of five. We're on my first skiff (a small, ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are calling for the government to stop oil and gas projects in their territory took their case to an international human rights body ...