A new regional study shows that land-use policies in Peru have been key to tempering rain forest degradation and destruction in that country. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of ...

This story is part of The Human Cost of Conservation, a Grist series on Indigenous rights and protected areas. It was supported by The Pulitzer Center, and is published in partnership with Indian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New photos and rare video of an uncontacted Indigenous tribe in the Peruvian Amazon show a collection of the people emerging from ...

LIMA, Peru--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Peruvian forest authorities are weakening the tools and inspections necessary to prevent illegal timber trade, in the face of overwhelming evidence that Peru’s exports to ...

Peruvian forests have not been well managed, despite laws dating back 25 years. Now, though, a campaign in under way to promote environmental awareness, sustainable management and the advantages to ...

SAN MARTÍN, Peru (AP) — The Cordillera Azul National Park on the eastern flank of the Peruvian Andes takes in a sweep of Amazon rainforest, mountains and waterfalls in a territory about the size of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Peru is home to around one tenth of the Amazon rainforest, the second largest block after Brazil. It’s also the best carbon mapped nation in the ...

Peru will benefit from US$50 million in funding from the Forest Investment Program (FIP) to support activities that will fight deforestation and forest degradation in the country and improve the ...

In the hills outside the small village of Sexi, Peru, a fossil forest holds secrets about South America’s past millions of years ago. When we first visited these petrified trees more than 20 years ago ...

A new regional study shows that land-use policies in Peru have been key to tempering rain forest degradation and destruction in that country. Scientists analyzed seven years of high-resolution ...

Stanford, CA—A new regional study shows that land-use policies in Peru have been key to tempering rain forest degradation and destruction in that country. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution’s ...