Peruvian authorities are backing a highway project that would cut through 5,400 hectares (more than 13,300 acres) of the ...

Conflicts with indigenous communities have stalled operations at Ecuador's San Carlos Panantza copper mining project, which the government of President Lenin Moreno had long pointed to as an example ...

A top expert on isolated Amazon tribes in Brazil was killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest as he approached an indigenous group, friends and a police witness said on Thursday.

LIMA, Peru—Pressed up against the remote jungle border with Brazil’s Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, Peru’s Amazonian region of Yavari Mirim has long been known as home to some of the last tribal ...

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 ...