An ongoing federal highway project that will cross through protected areas and Indigenous lands in Peru’s Amazon is facing ...

Indigenous organizations petitioned the Peruvian government to create Yavarí Mirim, an Indigenous reserve on the Amazon ...

An academic study published this week has found that gold mining in the southern Peruvian Amazon has compromised not only forests, but peatlands – releasing an additional 2.6 million tonnes CO2 into ...

New research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that artisan gold mining in the southern ...

Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon have urged the government to halt oil and gas projects that threaten their lands, ...

Gold mining in Peru’s Amazon is now destroying carbon-storing peatlands at an alarming rate. In just two years, over half of ...

The leaders presented evidence of the impact of oil and gas exploration at a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on ...

The Brazilian government is preparing to host the world’s largest climate summit uniquely – by chopping down tens of ...

Boluarte ranks as the most unpopular president in the world, and not a day goes by without corruption or political scandals ...

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 on Tuesday.