Peru News » Amazona News Peru » Amazona » Culture: Peru rejects creation of Amazon reserve to protect uncontacted tribes, drawing Indigenous outcry
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 ...
News Peru » Amazona » Culture: Drought is deepening a health crisis among Peru’s recently contacted Indigenous Matsés
Until a century ago, few Matsés had ever been in contact with a white person before. The Indigenous people lived in a remote area of the Amazon Rainforest, along the border of Peru and Brazil, in ...
News Peru » Amazona » Culture: Q&A with Sr. Zully Rojas Quispe, listening with humility in the Peruvian Amazon
To listen with urgency and humility to the cries of the Amazon and its Indigenous people was what Sr. Zully Rojas Quispe asked the church during her speech at the Vatican's synod for the Amazon region ...
News Peru » Amazona » Culture: The making of an autonomous Indigenous nation in Peru’s Amazon
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Wampís Indigenous people of northern Peru have spent decades resisting the expansion of oil drilling and other extractive projects in their ...
News Peru » Amazona » Culture: Peru to Consider New Reserve for Uncontacted Indigenous People
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.
News Peru » Amazona » Culture: Exploring Peru: Amazon Wildlife, Sacred Valley, and the Lost City of Machu Picchu
A real-life Indiana Jones set out on a chilly, drizzly July morning in 1911 to investigate rumors of Inca ruins. The intrepid Yale lecturer edged his way through jungle-tortured thickets and ...
News Peru » Amazona » Culture: War of Words Erupts Between Colombia and Peru Over Island in Amazon
Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a thousand miles from their capitals. By Julie Turkewitz and Mitra Taj Julie ...