The Amazon is the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world. It's a natural wonder that's inhabited by a diverse array of species and ethnic groups. Sadly, human activity is destroying the ...

Art goes downriver in Peru and encounters spectacular birds, animals and people. It’s a place where clouds conceal rare birds, animals blend into the forest, predators hide in the shadows and native ...

Major concerns about the danger posed by gas exploration in a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Amazon rainforest has prompted UNESCO to promise to lobby the Peruvian government. Manu National Park’s ...

A new documentary film about a road project in the Manu Biosphere Reserve in Peru’s southeastern Amazon chronicles an Indigenous community’s debate about its future. With the road will likely come new ...

Scientists warn that “flying rivers” — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across the Amazon — are weakening as deforestation and climate change advance ...

This story appears in the June 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Elias Machipango Shuverireni picks up his long, palm-wood bow and his arrows tipped with sharpened bamboo. We’re going monkey ...