By Geraldine Santos Peru’s Indigenous Shawi people continue to contest a plan to build a highway through their territory in ...

Forming sustainable research partnerships with Indigenous peoples requires trust and mutual benefit, say microbiome ...

In 2015, leaders of the Wampís did what no other Indigenous peoples have done in Peru’s modern history: They declared themselves an autonomous nation to gain greater control over their territory. For ...

A Catholic bishop in Peru's Amazon is warning that mercury from illegal gold mining is contaminating rivers, fish and people ...

In this undated photo provided by the Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Amazon, a home belonging to an uncontacted Indigenous group is visible in the Loreto region of the Peruvian ...

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. The ...

Indigenous territories and the people who defend them in the Peruvian Amazon face a litany of growing threats, activist ...

Researchers from the UAB and the UB are working with Indigenous Amazonian communities to understand health issues from a ...

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 ...