As a military helicopter roared overhead and soldiers fired the first warning shots, six wildcat miners rushed onto a boat ...

Major rivers across the Amazon region are experiencing an alarming decline in water levels because of effects from the El ...

A Peruvian court has convicted four men of murder for hire and sentenced them to up to 35 years in prison for the 2023 ...

Eight Peruvian navy personnel jumped from a helicopter into a clearing carved out of the Amazon rainforest by illegal gold ...

When I first arrived in Peru's Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve in 2005, a local youth surprised me with an offer to sell ...

ABC News documented countless gold mining camps along the Tambopata river.

Illegal gold mining is spreading into new parts of Peru’s Amazon, advancing along remote rivers and into Indigenous ...

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