Peru News » Amazona News Peru » Amazona » Social: 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 » 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: Uncontacted tribe sighted in Peruvian Amazon where loggers are active
LIMA >> Rare images of the Mashco Piro, an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the remote Peruvian Amazon, were published on Tuesday by Survival International, showing dozens of the people on the banks of ...
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: 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 » Social: New road in Peruvian Amazon sparks fear of invasion among Indigenous Shawi
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Peruvian authorities are backing a highway project that would cut through 5,400 hectares (more than 13,300 acres) of the largely preserved ...
News Peru » Amazona » Social: The 3 Biggest Threats to Indigenous Communities in Peru’s Amazon
In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous communities face an escalating threat from organized crime, yet remain largely invisible to the state, according to a new report. For years, criminal groups have ...
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 ...