New roads bring changes to the regions they traverse. They can enable job opportunities, access to medicine and health care, ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in ...

However, there is still no sign of a coherent policy capable of tackling environmental crime and the corruption that facilitates it, let alone any action. Part of this is due to the political chaos ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A commission in Peru was scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to create a long-delayed reserve in a remote stretch of the Amazon that would protect five uncontacted tribes from ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. While Brazil attracts more attention, deforestation is also substantial in the Peruvian Amazon, where forest clearing is on the rise. Carolina ...