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: It's the longest bridge ever built in Peru, and so far, it goes nowhere
Vendors and moto-taxi drivers gather near an unfinished portion of a federal highway project on the Nanay bridge in Iquitos, Peru, Sunday, May 26, 2024. The project in an untouched area of the ...
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: 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: 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: Peru court hands lengthy prison terms in killing of Indigenous Amazon defender
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
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 ...