A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

By recognizing all the good that still exists in communities and in the knowledge of elders, we believe the educational ...

Peru's government is moving toward reconciliation with the indigenous peoples after two months of rioting and protest that left over fifty people dead. The government of President Alan García ...

The large leaves of the aguaje, a tropical palm tree that grows in the peatlands and other seasonal wetland areas in tropical ...

Indigenous groups in Peru stopped blocking access to Glencore's Antapaccay copper mine in Peru, after closing an agreement with government officials, a local community leader said on Monday.

“To us, this is gravely concerning,” said Alvaro Masquez Salvador, a lawyer with the Indigenous Peoples program at Peru’s Legal Defense Institute. Masquez added that the reform sets a ...

Indigenous, informal miners in Peru have won folk-hero status in their communities, making political attempts to remove them that much tougher. Interviews with dozens of people around Pamputa show ...

Critics say the change could legitimise years of illegal deforestation. “To us, this is gravely concerning,” said Alvaro Masquez Salvador, a lawyer with the Indigenous Peoples programme at Peru’s ...

“To us, this is gravely concerning,” said Alvaro Masquez Salvador, a lawyer with the Indigenous Peoples programme at Peru’s Legal Defense Institute. Masquez adds that the reform sets a ...