Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This image provided by the Forest Peoples Programme shows Indigenous Kichwa tribal leader Quinto Inuma Alvarado in Tarapoto ...

UCAYALI, Peru — As they patrol their ancestral territory deep in the Amazon, some of the members of the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard carry spears. Others wield machetes. Several have traditional bows ...

Members of the Kakataibo Indigenous Guard who patrol the Peruvian Amazon, watching for coca crops being planted in the rainforest — a source of deforestation, violence, and bloodshed on their land.

Peru Amazon Defender FILE - This image provided by the Forest Peoples Programme shows Indigenous Kichwa tribal leader Quinto Inuma Alvarado in Tarapoto, Peru, Oct. 11, 2019. Alvarado was shot and ...