An environmental activist campaigning against the destruction of the Amazon was shot and killed in the Peruvian jungle, local authorities said Sunday. Hipolito Quispehuaman was killed Saturday night ...

A new regional conservation area has been created in Loreto, the largest region in Peru’s Amazon. The Medio Putumayo Algodón Regional Conservation Area is the fourth protected natural area in the ...

The Pure Amazon sailing through the Amazon Basin of Peru. “In the wild, anything can happen,” says Robinson Rodriguez, a naturalist, to our group of five. We're on my first skiff (a small, ...

As I backflipped off the skiff into the tannin-filled black waters of an Amazon River tributary, I briefly remembered that the jungle’s largest fish, the paiche, which can grow to be as much as 15 ...

Of all the travel dreams we’ve had, staying in a treehouse in the Amazon Rainforest has always been at the top. The Treehouse Lodge in the Peruvian Amazon is an actual dream come true for myriad ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — 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 the ...