Your waters start here and go to over there!” a man says in an aggressive tone, his face hidden behind a black balaclava, ...

It’s been three years since production began at a coal mine in the mountain village of Ned, some 1,500 kilometers, nearly ...

Peru’s culinary popularity masks shocking inequality and food insecurity among the country’s indigenous peoples.

Kichwa, Ticuna and Matsés women are leading forest patrols and training other women in the use of technology such as GPS, ...

Quiet aerial glimpses of the world’s most isolated societies underscore a hard lesson: protection often means distance. Restraint, not contact, can be the most humane form ... Continue Reading → ...

Peru's rejection of a nature reserve for isolated Indigenous is part of a sordid history of mistreating native Amazonians.

Image An Indigenous Korubo boy in the Amazon rainforest. Image by Paulo Múmia/Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas [National ...

The mural was discovered at the Huaca Yolanda site, which is believed to predate Chavín de Huántar, one of the most studied pre-Hispanic ceremonial sites in the Andes ...

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

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 ...