Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

Everyone does it.” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal ...

Critics say the change could legitimize years of illegal deforestation ... Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares—about 60% ...

Amendment to Peru Law Raises Fears of Amazon Rainforest Destruction ... legalizing past deforestation. Peru’s Constitutional Court upheld the amendment after a group of lawyers filed a ...