Awajun is an indigenous tribal group from the Amazonian frontier in Peru. KUMAR CHEllAPPAN tries to draw a parallel between them and the tribals in India, as is evident in this book lima, capital city ...

What happens when a team of scientists and local Awajún guides go on a 38-day trip into the Alto Mayo region of Peru? Over 2000 species are... New in Peru: 27 species previously undiscovered by ...

Collective Fashion Justice showcases its collaboration between Caxacori Studio and the Awajún community to create sustainable bio-leather, presenting its possibilities at Copenhagen Fashion Week.

From female suicide to the nature of being civilised, probing tribal life in the 21st century needs an unflinching, critical eye ON 26 January 1987, Time magazine ran an article in which US ...

A Peruvian court has upheld the right of Awajun and Wampis indigenous communities to be consulted about oil drilling on their land, in a case supported by Catholic Church leaders. The court ordered ...

A few years ago, in the thickets of Peru, around 3,000 people blocked the main highway, the Curva del Diablo, or the Devil’s Curve. “They are angry that three-quarters of the jungle, an area the size ...

May 21 marks the National Day of Cultural and Linguistic Diverisity, and to commemorate the occasion, the Peruvian National Registrar of Identification and Civil Status (Reniec) launched the ...

In the summer of 2022, a group of scientists and conservationists traveled to the Alto Mayo region of northern Peru. For 38 days, Trond Larsen, an ecologist at Conservation International led a team of ...