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Women from the Yine Indigenous community in Peru are working to harvest and process the seeds of the murumuru, a native Amazonian palm tree. The community of Monte Salvado, where many Yine people live ...

Women in Indigenous communities living near artisanal and small-scale gold mining operations in Peru and Nicaragua have high levels of mercury in their hair, a new analysis suggests. Researchers say ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are calling for the government to stop oil and gas projects in their territory took their case to an international human rights body ...

Peru’s presidential runoff has exposed deep dissatisfaction in the Andean south, where poor rural voters see the election as ...

Around 5,000 years ago, members of an ancient Peruvian Indigenous group buried an elite member of their society: They wrapped her body in layers of cloth, woven plants and colorful macaw feathers, and ...

FILE - Part of the Amazon jungle destroyed by illegal miners is visible in the Tambopata province, Peru's Madre de Dios region on March 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Rodrigo ...

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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous leaders from the Peruvian Amazon who are calling for the government to stop oil and gas projects in their territory took their case to an international human rights ...

Part of the Amazon jungle destroyed by illegal miners is visible in the Tambopata province, Peru's Madre de Dios region on March 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — ...