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: 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: 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: Rare pictures released of uncontacted Amazon rainforest tribe in Peru emerging near logging site
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of uncontacted people deep in the Peruvian Amazon have been captured on camera just several miles from a number of logging ...
News Peru » Amazona » Social: A Law Meant to Protect the Peruvian Amazon Is Unwound
An amendment to a Peruvian law has shaken environmentalists who warn it may accelerate Amazon deforestation in the name of economic progress, with one critic calling it "gravely concerning." The AP ...