Illegal gold mining in the Amazon rainforest has long been a source of environmental degradation and human health risks. Now, ...

The Amazon rainforest is estimated to have 390 billion individual trees and innumerable species of plants and animals. Canopy ...

A foreigner – reported as ‘English’ or ‘British’ in local media – was beaten by residents who accused him of shooting a man ...

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

A British man has reportedly been lynched and burned alive by a mob in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest region. He was said to ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce ... that warn it could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon rainforest under the guise of economic development.

Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil ... Passed in 2011, the original Forestry and Wildlife Law required state approval and environmental studies before any ...