Amazon rainforest in Peru, ravaged by gold mining, ... Nearly 250,000 acres of the Peruvian Amazon have been destroyed, according to a 2018 study by Wake Forest University researchers.

The Peruvian government has sent investigators into the Amazon after a man was killed by an “uncontacted” indigenous tribe. Leonardo Perez, 20, was shot in the chest with an arrow on Friday as ...

The Peruvian Amazon is the world’s fourth largest tropical rainforest and an important biodiversity hotspot. But as usual, people are putting financial gain over preserving endemic and ...

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.

Seized Peruvian Amazon rainforest wood destroyed One of two recent enforcement actions in the Port of Houston By Lise Olsen , Former Investigative Reporter Updated Jan 19, 2017 4:48 p.m.

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

Illegal deforestation is wiping out a significant portion of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest. According to a report by Mongabay, satellite images have recently revealed that deforestation around ...

The trip, which was funded by a grant from the Longwood Foundation, was part of a two-year DTI seminar on the Amazon rainforest. Seminar participants worked closely with the Amazon Center for ...

LONDON -- Dozens of uncontacted people deep in the Peruvian Amazon have been captured on camera just several miles from a number of logging areas, a human rights group said, and they are believed ...

Peruvian rainforest defender killed returning from environmental workshop. December 2, ... which straddles the point where the Amazon meets the foothills of the Andes mountains.