International Institute for Environment and Development

Peru: campaigning for legal rights for Mother Nature

As mineral prices rise, Peru is witnessing a mining rush, legal and illegal, artisanal and industrial, that is causing ...
Morning Overview on MSN

New frog in Peru’s cloud forest is already on the edge of extinction

High in Peru’s San Martín cloud forests, a small brown frog with golden eyes has slipped into the scientific record at the ...
The Columbian

From a secret safehouse, Peru’s Indigenous revolt advances

LIMA, Peru — In an industrial corridor of Peru’s capital, a dingy stairwell leads to a second-floor safehouse. Dozens of Quechua and Aymara activists lie on mattresses strewn on the floor, resting up ...
Newsday

Peru's Indigenous leaders raise concerns over oil and gas projects at a human rights hearing

BOGOTA, Colombia — Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are calling for the government to stop oil and gas projects in their territory took their case to an international human rights body ...
Mongabay

Indigenous communities in Peru ‘living in fear’ due to deforestation, drug trafficking

Between 2021 and 2021 the territory of the Indigenous Kakataibo community of Puerto Nuevo lost 15% of its tree cover. Satellite data suggest forest loss in the community territory may have accelerated ...
Yahoo

From a secret safehouse, Peru's Indigenous revolt advances

FILE - An Aymara woman, holding a Peruvian national, stands on a pile of dirt serving as a roadblock set up by anti-government protesters, in Acora, southern Peru, Jan. 29, 2023. Peruvians have been ...
WIVB-TV

Peru’s Indigenous leaders raise concerns over oil and gas projects at a human rights hearing

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous leaders ...