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.

An aerial view of the Nanay River, a tributary of the Amazon, in Iquitos, Peru, Sept. 10, 2024 (AP photo by Cesar Von Bancles). LIMA, Peru—Pressed up against the remote jungle border with Brazil’s ...

Last week, a government commission in Peru voted to nix plans for a vast 3 million acre conservation reserve in the Amazon that would have protected uncontacted peoples there. Peru is among the ...

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 ...