Human Rights Watch has warned that Peru's Congress is seriously undermining the judicial system's ability to combat organized ...

The Peruvian government says it can reach zero deforestation in just 10 years with the help of funds from Western governments. It is taking its ambitious proposal to the latest round of UN talks on ...

The Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) examined all five Mennonite colonies in Peru (Chipiar, Vanderland, Osterreich, Providencia, and Masisea) and found that deforestation was ...

Groups belonging to the Mennonites have emerged as a notable source of deforestation in Peru's Amazon, having cut down an area close to the size of Manhattan since 2017, according to a new report.

Forest conservation initiatives in Peru in the past decades have had little to no effect, as deforestation continues to skyrocket in the country, according to a new study by the International ...

BOGOTA, Colombia — A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation ...

The anti-forest law flies in the face of Peru’s COP commitments to reduce deforestation and may affect allocation of funds from the COP 26 Global Forests Finance Pledge. It also contravenes free trade ...

An advocacy group for Indigenous peoples has released photographs of a reclusive tribe's members searching for food on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon, calling it evidence that logging concessions ...

Deforestation Rate: 165 kha/year. Approximately 1100 square miles of Peru’s forest becomes subject to deforestation every year. The increasing rate of deforestation in Peru is due to many ...

In 2021 alone, nearly 2 million hectares of primary forest — the most ecologically significant forests on Earth for carbon storage — were lost across the region, according to the Monitoring of the ...

Deforestation in Peru's Amazon has remained relatively stable in recent years, with a significant spike in 2020 during the first year of the pandemic. "An entity that can continue expanding ...