Peru trails only outsized Brazil, a country eight times larger, in Amazon deforestation, having razed 2.6 million hectares of its rainforest (an area the size of El Salvador) since 2001.

Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon has risen this century - destroying an area of rainforest 14 times larger than Los Angeles - with small farmers behind most of the cutting, according to a new ...

The air is thick under the humid rainforest canopy in Peru’s Amazonian basin. Insects hum and the squawks of circling macaws echo through the trees. I’m silently crouching on the forest floor ...

The Amazon rainforest -- considered one of the world's most important climate regulators - continues to face serious threats ...

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

Peru is moving ahead to pump more oil via a notoriously leaky pipeline that traverses the world’s largest rainforest even as it acknowledges it will continue to be a money loser.

Video shows isolated Amazon tribe emerge from rain forest in Peru amid threat from loggers The Mashco Piro people, thought to be the largest uncontacted tribe in the world, were pictured emerging ...

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

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