Peru is considering whether to create the long-delayed Yavari Mirim Indigenous Reserve in a remote stretch of the Amazon that would protect five uncontacted tribes from outside encroachment.

BOGOTA, Colombia -- BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peru’s Congress rejected Friday a proposal to create a long-delayed Amazon ...

Climate change and territorial encroachment drive the remote Matsigenka tribe's fight for clean water in the Amazon, where ...

By Maxwell Radwin Officials in Peru last week voted against a proposal to create an Indigenous reserve in the country’s Amazonian region, where isolated tribes face threats from logging, mining and ...

Last week, a government commission in Peru voted to nix plans for a vast 3 million acre conservation reserve in the Amazon that would have protected uncontacted peoples there. Peru is among the ...

One of the largest known uncontacted tribes on the planet has had recent interactions with outsiders, prompting concerns among activists that the extremely isolated society is in grave jeopardy. “It ...

The Mashco Piro tribe, an uncontacted group in the Peruvian Amazon, has been sighted near a village, raising concerns about ...

The Mashco Piro, one of the largest uncontacted tribes in Peru's Amazon, face increased threats as a logging company builds a bridge into their territory. This development risks disease and conflict, ...

One of the largest known uncontacted tribes on the planet has had recent interactions with outsiders, prompting concerns ...

Madre de Dios is a remote southeastern Amazon region bordering Brazil and Bolivia. It is one of Peru’s most biodiverse areas, ...

Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon who have only recently come into contact with the outside world have created their own federation to stand against conservation projects they say benefit from ...

Alfredo Vargas Pio, president of local Indigenous organisation FENAMAD, had previously warned that if the Mashco Piro people interacted with outsiders, they could be 'wiped out' by an illness such as ...