This week, Peruvian officials are set to consider the creation of a sprawling reserve in the country’s Amazon basin to protect groups of Indigenous people living in isolation from the rest of society.

Peruvian police on Monday captured one of the killers of four Indigenous Amazon land defenders who were murdered protecting their territories from illegal loggers, police sources said.

LIMA, Peru-Pressed up against the remote jungle border with Brazil's Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, Peru's Amazonian region of Yavari Mirim has long been known as home to some of the last tribal ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are calling for the government to stop oil and gas projects in their territory took their case to an international human rights ...

By Will Dunham May 7 (Reuters) - Indigenous people in the Andes domesticated the potato - a great source of starch, vitamins, ...

Study finds that natural selection favored those with high number of starch-digesting genes following potato domestication in ...

Indigenous people of the Andes were the first to domesticate the potato, making the starch-rich crop a dietary staple for ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are calling for the government to stop oil and gas projects in their territory took their case to an international human rights ...