By Astrid Arellano Indigenous women leaders don’t only sustain life in their territories; they are also active defenders of ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. The queuña forests in Peru, once covering vast stretches of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

1. Indigenous women's movements: An intersectional approach to studying social movements -- 2. Indigenous movements merge into party and state politics -- 3.Indigenous women transform the politics of ...

Members of the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard who patrol the Peruvian Amazon, watching for coca crops being planted in the rainforest — a source of deforestation, violence, and bloodshed on their land.

SINANGOE, Ecuador, Dec 10 (Reuters) - About 200 members of Indigenous groups from Ecuador, Colombia and Peru gathered early ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An attack by armed assailants on a patrol of a mission by the Indigenous Wampis guards last week in the Peruvian Amazon has again brought into focus the issue of illegal gold ...

In Peru, women’s rights exist in a strange paradox: on paper, we have the laws, the representation, and the international commitments that promise equality; in reality, our lives tell a different ...

UCAYALI, Peru — As they patrol their ancestral territory deep in the Amazon, some of the members of the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard carry spears. Others wield machetes. Several have traditional bows ...