The nation’s massive copper deposits are key to meeting growing global demand. A battle has emerged over who gets to mine and ...

A United Nations effort is channeling more finance to communities to help them conserve, restore and sustainably manage ...

Colombia has created a first-of-its-kind territory meant to protect a group of Indigenous people living away from regular ...

Peru's Indigenous Leaders Raise Concerns Over Oil and Gas Projects at a Human Rights Hearing BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are calling for the ...

Tarcila Rivera-Zea, a member of the Quechua community in Peru, has spent decades pushing for Native peoples to be heard. By Shivani Vora This article is part of a Women and Leadership special ...

an extensive reserve for hundreds of isolated Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon. The reserve is heavily disputed by extractive industries for its logging and oil and gas drilling potential.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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 ...

Part of the Amazon jungle destroyed by illegal miners is visible in the Tambopata province, Peru's Madre de Dios region on March 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — ...