This is the first of three interviews with Indigenous representatives attending the 2025 U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous ...

“We bless our work with the energy of our songs.” According to official figures, close to 33,000 Shipibo-Konibo people inhabit Peru. Settled in the surroundings of the Uyacali river, many ...

Walter Lopez, a traditional indigenous healer from Peru’s Shipibo tribe, remembers his first experience with the plant medicine, aged just 14: “The first time I drunk, I felt weak. And the ...

Across South America, states only recognize and guarantee the rights of peoples in isolation whose presence has been ...

Indigenous communities like the Shipibo in Peru have used ayahuasca for centuries and understand the benefits and the risks ...