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 ...

ROME – Former members of the women’s branch of a Peru-based Catholic movement currently under Vatican investigation have described an internal culture in which the movement’s male founder was ...

Logo of the Marian Community of Reconciliation (Credit: MCR/Social media.) Listen ROME – Former members of the women’s branch of the Peru-based Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV) say that among the ...

In recent years, there has been growing support for tough-on-crime rhetoric. In Peru, for example, in 2025, there was a shift in the representation of prisons driven by the government. The visibility ...

Women from the Yine Indigenous community in Peru are working to harvest and process the seeds of the murumuru, a native Amazonian palm tree. The community of Monte Salvado, where many Yine people live ...

Vanesa Escobar is a JURIST correspondent in Peru and a law graduate of Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco. On December 10, Peru suffered yet another murder. This time, however, the ...