This week, Peruvian officials are set to consider the creation of a sprawling reserve in the country’s Amazon basin to protect groups of Indigenous people living in isolation from the rest of society.

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 ...

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 ...

Across Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador, drug traffickers and illegal gold miners have moved deep into Indigenous territories. "Any chance encounter runs the risk of transmitting the flu, ...

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 ...