LIMA (Reuters) -Rare images of the Mashco Piro, an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the remote Peruvian Amazon, were published on Tuesday by Survival International, showing dozens of the people on the ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian Amazon Indian leaders are warning of renewed protests, alleging Friday that the government has not honored promises made in the aftermath of June violence that left at least ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dozens of uncontacted people deep in the Peruvian Amazon have been captured on camera just several miles from a number of logging ...

Peru's reclusive Mashco Piro ethnic group recently used bows and arrows to attack loggers suspected of encroaching on their territory in the Amazon, according to a regional Indigenous organization.

In an unusual development, members of an Amazon tribe who avoid contact with outsiders have been seen entering a village Indigenous advocates find that alarming and a sign of stress as a logging ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Forensic teams have begun the long-delayed exhumation of members of an Amazon tribe that suffered devastating losses during Peru’s 1980-2000 conflict with Shining Path rebels. The ...

NUEVO JERUSALEM, Peru -- Tomás Maynas Carijano strolled through his tiny jungle farm, pinching leaves, shaking his head. The rain forest spread lushly in all directions -- covering what oil maps call ...

Peru is considering sending in the army to break up protests by Amazonian Indians who claim the government is preparing a massive land grab in the country's remote jungles. Indigenous groups have ...

The jungle, I knew, was dangerous. There were animals throughout southwestern Peru’s Manú National Park that could, if push came to shove, tear my face clean off. The Andean spectacled bear in the ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A commission in Peru was scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to create a long-delayed reserve in a remote stretch of the Amazon that would protect five uncontacted tribes from ...