The burial was discovered in the remains of a building in an ancient fishing town. Peru Ministry of Culture Around 5,000 ...

Deforestation in the Amazon is closing in around isolated communities, many of which lack official recognition by governments ...

Across South America, states only recognize and guarantee the rights of peoples in isolation whose presence has been ...

Among the social groups that have lamented Pope Francis’s death in Brazil, the Indigenous peoples seem to be especially ...

As the first Latin American pontiff, the legacy of Pope Francis in the region is complex, according to analysts consulted by ...

Leonardo Padilla Sacha grew up in the town of Pampas in Huancavelica, Peru. The youngest of eight siblings, Sacha spoke ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, was as much a tireless advocate for nature as he was the poor and ...

Criminal groups behind are placing the region’s vast biodiversity, fragile ecosystems, and Indigenous ways of life, under ...

Dozens of indigenous nations from different countries are calling for an oil drilling ban in the world's largest rainforest ...

There has been a huge push to plant native trees across the Andes in recent years. And it’s been a success. This is episode ...

Courtesy of Stifs Paucca As a Peruvian, I have watched with growing alarm as my country slides ever closer to the ...