The Latest Breaking News from Peru

An Indigenous community in Peru has won the latest stage of a legal battle to reclaim lost rainforests

Scientists surprised to find so many animals unknown to science in Alto Mayo, a well-populated region

Alfredo Santiago has a unique job in Peru’s capital city of Lima: he’s a bee rescuer

The fossil of the gharial -- or fish-eating -- crocodile, around three meters long (nearly 10 feet), was discovered late 2023 in perfect condition in Peru's Ocucaje desert, around 350 kilometers (190 miles) south of the capital Lima.

Many Shipibo-Konibo craftswomen migrated from their Indigenous communities in the Amazon to Peru's capital, Lima, in the past few decades

The Australian Museum’s Machu Picchu exhibition brings ancient Andean societies to life – and features an extravagant collection of gold

Wampis leaders in Peru call for action to protect their rainforest lands from oil pollution and environmental harm caused by international banks funding Pe...

Indigenous leaders from the Wampis Nation in Peru are urging lawmakers at the House of Commons in London to ban international banks’ support for Amazon oil activities they say harm their ancestral rainforests

On March 2 2022, delegates to the UN environment assembly adopted an ambitious resolution to develop the text of a new treaty by the end of 2024 to end plastic pollution. With 24 days of formal negotiation between almost 200 countries completed, spread over meetings in Peru, France, Kenya and…