Peru News » Amazona News Peru » Amazona » Social: Peru: Measures Proposed to Combat Illegal Economies in the Amazon
Illegal economies—such as illegal gold mining, drug trafficking, illegal logging, land trafficking, and human trafficking—present in the Peruvian Amazon ...
News Peru » Amazona » Social: Peru grants legal rights to stingless bees for the 1st time
In the Peruvian Amazon, a tiny pollinator has become the unlikely protagonist of a legal revolution. Local authorities have recognized stingless bees as holders of rights in their own ecosystems, ...
News Peru » Amazona » Social: Government Indifferent to Invasion of Drug Traffickers in the Peruvian Amazon
LIMA, Jul 26 (IPS) - The invasion of lands inhabited by Amazon indigenous communities is growing in Peru, due to drug trafficking mafias that are expanding coca crops to produce and export cocaine, ...
News Peru » Amazona » Social: Colombia’s President Petro accuses Peru of annexing disputed Amazon island
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has accused the neighbouring country of Peru of annexing a disputed island on the Amazon River, resuscitating a longstanding disagreement between the two nations. In ...
News Peru » Amazona » Social: Deforestation around Mennonite colonies continues in Peruvian Amazon: Report
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mennonite colonies first began appearing in Peru’s rainforests around 2017, and deforestation due to their activities has spiked from zero in 2017 ...
News Peru » Amazona » Social: 'We have no choice': Indigenous guards take on cocaine gangs in Peru's Amazon
UCAYALI, Peru — As they patrol their ancestral territory deep in the Amazon, some of the members of the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard carry spears. Others wield machetes. Several have traditional bows ...
News Peru » Amazona » Social: New conservation area protects 53% of carbon in northern Peruvian Amazon
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Peru’s government has established the Medio Putumayo Algodón Regional Conservation Area in the Loreto region of the Amazon Rainforest. This new ...
News Peru » Amazona » Social: 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 ...