What lured them to this remote jungle was the treasure ... in countries that include not only Peru but Venezuela, Ecuador and Brazil have more people, hold more territory and possess about five ...

Five minutes into the jungle we hear the calls of dusky ... but we have 800 people here. We can defend ourselves.” Peru’s Environment Ministry, which runs the park, opposes the road, and ...

People gathered in a circle three-deep to ... NGOs led by the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest is proposing a more than 34,000-square-mile protected corridor ...

A Peruvian passenger plane crashed during a severe storm in Peru's northeastern jungle on Tuesday, killing at least 40 people, police said. A spokesman for the state-run airline TANS said the ...