Indigenous communities demand equal voice and power for leaders at UN COP30 conference to be held in the Amazon city of Belem ...

An ongoing federal highway construction project in Peru threatens Maijuna ... the vice president of the Organization of the Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Amazon (ORPIO), told Mongabay in ...

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

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

A deadline for Peruvian President Dina Boluarte to make changes or promulgate a bill that is being criticized as a project ...

The first section of the road, which is now complete, runs from Peru’s Bellavista ... of the Organization of the Indigenous Peoples of the Eastern Amazon (ORPIO), told Mongabay in a phone ...

They’re doing this work very bravely, without any support.” For the people defending human rights and the environment in ...

Half a century of oil drilling has left the Amazon rainforest scarred -and a new wave of fossil fuel extraction is coming ...

The tribe is protected under Indian law to prevent exposure to modern illnesses, which could devastate their population ...