If you want to bring a souvenir back home from an international trip — say a coconut from a tropical island — you’re likely ...

The leader of an indigenous community in Peru asked for the government to declare a state of emergency on Monday and accused ...

The mystical relationship between the Indigenous communities of the northern Peruvian Amazon and the Marañón River is at the ...

There is a 'mismatch' between the importance of peatlands and their current level of protection, a new study warns.

What happens when a team of scientists and local Awajún guides go on a 38-day trip into the Alto Mayo region of Peru? Over ...

from Peru’s Alto Mayo is a very small and ... is also new to science even though this species is already familiar to the Indigenous Awajun people who worked with the RAP scientists.

An unconditional cash-transfer pilot project for Indigenous peoples in Peru’s Amazon is underway to help support families who turn to unsustainable or illegal forest activities due to economic ...

In Brazil, Indigenous peoples who access this funding are the ones who effectively ... which stores crucial amounts of carbon from the atmosphere, as a top priority. For Peru, the humanitarian agency ...

Chile’s biggest carnival is kicking off at full speed today. As many as 150,000 people have traveled to the northern Chilean ...

Made from the sap of the shiringa tree, the biomaterial combats land-grabbing for deforestation, supports communities that ...

Non-consensual sterilisation of those considered genetically inferior persists in some parts of the world today ...