The Amazon is one of the planet’s last great wildernesses, stretching across nine countries in South America. It has been a ...

Laura Vicuña, an Indigenous woman of the Kariri people and the vice president of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon ...

Cerro El Cono is a solitary, pyramidal hill in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest whose origins remain mysterious and that holds ...

Peru’s state-run oil company failed to attract any bids to develop an oil field that overlaps ancestral territories of ...

Though Pope Leo XIV has been lauded for his advocacy in defense of immigrants and worker rights—his namesake, Leo XIII, who ...

Colombia has taken a major step in Indigenous rights by formally recognizing Indigenous councils as local governments across ...

Clergymen and faithful in the Amazon region see Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV, who spent about two decades in Peru's countryside, ...

Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares—about 60 percent of Peru’s territory, according to nonprofit Rainforest Trust. It’s one ...

Since then, Prevost deepened his ties with interfaith environmental networks like the Interfaith Rainforest ... residents in Northern Peru and not too far from the Amazon, was one of the key ...

In Peru, extensive resources are needed to monitor the millions of hectares of rainforest and provide ... to the sustainability of the Peruvian Amazon forests. Recently, two Peruvian specialists ...