LETICIA, Colombia (AP) — Marciano Flores stood knee-deep in the Amazon River with the rest of his crew, ready to haul in a giant net as a man in a canoe circled in an attempt to drive fish their ...

On a cloudless afternoon in the foothills of the Andes, Eliana Martínez took off for the Amazon jungle in a single-engine Cessna 172K from an airstrip near Colombia’s capital, Bogotá.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — 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 in ...

Colombia has created a first-of-its-kind territory meant to protect a group of Indigenous people living between the Caquetá and Putumayo Rivers in the Amazon Rainforest. The 2.7-million-acre ...

“We have to compensate Guyana and Venezuela so that this oil that is in the Amazon jungle, in the territory of the Essequibo, does not leave”, he concluded. During his visit to Casa Colombia ...

The findings of this report are based on desk reviews, field interviews in three countries—Brazil, Colombia, and Peru (which comprise more than 80 percent of the Amazon Basin and are its largest ...

but what he proposes is to limit it to the Amazon countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. He also suggested signing a “military treaty” similar to ...

Maldonado’s work in the Colombia-Peru-Brazil tri-border region of the Amazon has taken her into dangerous territories operated by drug traffickers, FARC paramilitaries, illegal loggers and poachers.