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 ...

Indigenous women leaders don’t only sustain life in their territories; they are also active defenders of water, seeds, ancestral knowledge and biodiversity. Together, they lead environmental ...

Scientists have unearthed the body of a 4,500-year-old woman in Peru. What’s surprising is that they found not just her bones, but strands of hair, patches of skin, and even fingernails intact. Such ...

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the burial of an elite woman with remarkable grave goods, including decorative crafts made from a toucan's beak and macaw feathers. The woman lived sometime ...

The woman—with skin, hair and nails still intact—belonged to the little-known Caral civilization, which flourished in Peru 5,000 years ago Reading time 2 minutes Roughly around the same time that ...

A staggering 900-plus girls and women are missing and feared dead in Peru since COVID-19 confinement began, authorities said Monday. A woman promotes a sandwich restaurant in downtown Lima mandatory ...

Paulina has worked as a sex worker on the streets of Lima, the capital of Peru, for 15 years. With no other form of income, this is how she supports her family. “When you have children, you will do ...

The top suspect in the disappearance of an American teenager seven years ago has just confessed to murdering a 21-year-old woman in Peru five years to the day after the disappearance of Natalee ...