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Avian flu, overfishing, and a super El Niño have decimated Peru’s largest colony of Humboldt penguins. Scientists are holding out hope that their n...

Along a freshly repaved stretch of the BR-317 highway in Acre, a Brazilian state bordering Bolivia and Peru in the Western Amazon, pasture stretches out as far as the eye can see. Solitary Brazil nut…

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Avian flu, overfishing, and a super El Niño have decimated Peru’s largest colony of Humboldt penguins. Scientists are holding out hope that their numbers will bounce back.

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As gold prices surge, illegal mining has laid waste to swathes of Tambopata National Reserve’s rainforest

The population was already in trouble, but now, the birds are starving to death.

The Guardian reports illegal gold mining has damaged 140,000 hectares in Peru’s Amazon. Rising prices are fueling a criminal trade with lasting costs for forests and wildlife.

Veteran UFC referee Herb Dean is once again at the center of a controversy. On Tuesday, Peru’s Ian Escuza scored a quick knockout over Luca Borando, stopping his opponent in just 32 seconds. That’s the exact kind of victory that typically earns an up-and-coming talent a UFC contract, and indeed, Escuza walked away as the […]

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Forest fires have ravaged Peru in recent years, with thousands of hectares of tree cover lost. Despite this, some Indigenous communities are actually seeing a decline in blazes. Meet the forest protec...

Archaeological excavation at the Inka provincial centre of Tambo Viejo, in Peru’s Acari valley, has recovered coca leaves in direct…

As gold prices surge, illegal mining has laid waste to swathes of Tambopata National Reserve’s rainforest

As gold prices surge, illegal mining has laid waste to swathes of Tambopata National Reserve’s rainforest

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Peru targets more than $7 billion in 2026 mining investment, but new permits alone do not guarantee the spending or construction that follows them.

“Halt, stop right there,” shouts a Peruvian Navy Seal, firing warning shots into the air. But the fleeing man pays no attention, scrambling up to the rim of a football pitch-sized crater and disappearing into the dense rainforest as the commandos give chase, swearing and shooting. Meanwhile, other marines set dynamite charges on a makeshift wooden raft that floats in the crater, which is essentially an enormous pit of opaque, stagnant water. The raft has a diesel-fuelled suction pump motor with thick plastic tubing used to suck up and sift through river sediment for tiny particles of gold. Soon after, a mushroom of orange and black fumes envelops the trees – and seconds later comes the sound of the explosion, shattering the peace of the Tambopata National Reserve, one of Peru’s most prized Amazon parks. Located in the south-eastern Madre de Dios region, the reserve is visited by about 40,000 tourists a year, many of whom stay in luxurious ecolodges further down the Malinowski River that marks the Tambopata park’s northern border. But today eight patrols are moving along the river, by helicopter or boat – and every few hundred metres they encounter more evidence of illegal gold mining, operations...

As gold prices surge, illegal mining has laid waste to swathes of Tambopata National Reserve’s rainforest