Wildlife trafficking in Peru’s Amazon region occurs in three stages: extraction, transportation and commercialization. Some of the animals are concealed throughout these journeys. Others, which are ...

How one Amazon community is trying to move on from illegal wildlife tourism. Puerto Alegría, Peru, was notorious for illegal wild animal encounters.

Like in other Amazon countries, songbirds in Guyana are requested for whistling competitions. These irregular competitions take place in Georgetown, where the captivity and trafficking of these ...

Two significant criminal enterprises are believed to have been disrupted, while the value of all the seizures totals $64 million.

The department of Loreto, in northeast Peru, shares a nearly uninhabited border with Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil, making it ideal for illegal logging and wildlife trafficking.

"Every hectare protected here means more space for jaguars to roam." Officials take bold action to protect one-of-a-kind ...

Peru has about 64 species of animals in danger of extinction. ... But the rigorous enforcement in San Martin, one of Peru’s five Amazon regions, appears to be the exception rather than the rule.

A UAE-coordinated law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin has led to 94 arrests and the ...

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 ...

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 the Amazon ...

A legal reversal and unconstitutional amendments . Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares—about 60% of Peru's territory, according ...