High in northern Peru, three frogs no bigger than a thumbprint have stepped out of anonymity and into the scientific ...

Peru's giant shihuahuaco trees are threatened by commercial pressure By Amanda Chaparro (Las Piedras River, Madre de Dios, special correspondent) Published on February 22, 2024, at 4:00 am (Paris) ...

By Mongabay.com Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon are working to revive populations of the aguaje palm tree, commercially valued for its fruits, by shifting to more sustainable harvesting ...

The mummy had gone unnoticed despite urban development in a district where agricultural fields have been converted into ...

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

As workers in Peru removed some overgrown trees from an archaeological site, they noticed some distinctive bricks hidden underneath — and found the ruins of an ancient pyramid-like structure ...

High in the cloud-wrapped peaks of the Cordillera de Huancabamba, where the Andes dip and twist into isolated ridges, a team ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — The first two leopard cubs born in captivity in Peru began climbing trees inside their cages at a Lima zoo Wednesday in their first appearance before the public.

An Andean bear named Ruru slowly wakes up after being tranquilized in Peru. Scientists fit him with a GPS collar that tracked his movements and behavior, while another four bears wore Crittercams.

Few studies have measured the extent of the decline, but in 2012, a researcher found that due to the heavy felling of aguaje trees in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve in northern Peru’s ...

A record number of fires tore through Peru over the past few weeks, wreaking havoc across the country's ecosystems as grasslands, dry forests, coastal areas, and the Amazon were set ablaze.