Peruvian Rainforest News Today

The former president of Panama evades jail by taking refuge in the Nicaraguan embassy, but strains relations between the two countries.

A new amendment to Peru’s forest and wildlife law is being criticized by opponents as unconstitutional and a step backward in forest protection after it came into effect Jan. 10 following approval by Congress. The revised law (Law 29763) legalizes agricultural activities without the need for certain environmental evaluations or technical studies on private properties […]

Due to the "potential impacts" on the environment, Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom have expressed their views on the amendments to the Peruvian

Reporting for this story was supported by the Dom Phillips Grant of the Rainforest Journalism Fund in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center. IQUITOS, Peru — On the Peruvian side of the Yavarí River, overlooking the lush Brazilian shore, a weary Matsés man deletes the latest anonymous threat he received on his cellphone. He thought he […]

On the afternoon of November 29, Quinto Inuma Alvarado, Indigenous Kichwa leader and chief of the Santa Rosillo de Yanayacu community, was murdered in front of his family with three gunshots. Nine years ago, on September 1, 2014, four Ashéninka leaders of the community Alto Tamaya-Saweto, Edwin Chota Valera, Jorge Ríos Pérez, Leoncio Quintisima Meléndez, […]

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Lima, Sep 14 (EFE).- Environmental organizations and indigenous leaders have warned about the risk to biodiversity and native communities if oil exploration and extraction begins in the site known as MD-XP-001, located in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon. The site, according to the organization Rights, Environment and Natural Resources (DAR), is among 31 areas …

Opponents warn that the proposed legislation is "a naked land grab by the oil and gas industry" that critically imperils Peru's uncontacted tribes.

To make change, leaders say the U.N. system needs to do a better job elevating Indigenous voices.

"Indigenous people have to be at the forefront of responses to climate change."