In a groundbreaking move, stingless bees in Peru's Amazon rainforest have been granted legal rights, becoming the world's ...

Centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire, a much smaller kingdom on the central coast of Peru already had a sophisticated ...

Scientists studied centuries-old bird feathers from an ancient tomb on the coast, and then traced the origins back to the ...

Stingless bees in Peru now have legal rights, recognizing their ecological importance and protecting vital rainforest ...

The Mashco-Piro tribe live deep in Peru's Amazon rainforest and are thought to be the world's largest uncontacted tribe ...

Punch, a baby squirrel monkey from the Amazon, was separated from his mother at birth and transported to arid Lima to be sold ...

A new study shows that parrots and Amazon macaws were traded across the Andes for elite feather ornaments long before the ...

An 'uncontactable' tribe hidden deep in the Amazonian rainforest are the most secluded in the world - yet they are facing a ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Illegal gold mining is spreading into new parts of Peru’s Amazon, advancing along remote rivers and into Indigenous territories as experts warn of a widening environmental and ...

A chorus of high-pitched squeals cuts through the blanket of mist. We steer our skiff, bobbing up and down on the syrupy brown waters, toward the racket. “It's a troop of squirrel monkeys,” says my ...

The team suspected that “these birds were wild-caught in the rainforest, transported alive across the Andes, and kept in ...