Riverside communities in the Amazon without regular power supply are benefiting by solar energy experiment on a small scale.
Monthly Archives: August 2013
Butterflies ‘invade’ Manaus to rest before mating
City is a strategic point on the route of the species, originating from other countries.
State should require to Pluspetrol correct EIA observations to Lot 88
Ombudsman recalled the state’s duty to protect the fundamental rights of indigenous peoples in isolation and initial contact.
Resolution with observations Block 88 project shall be void
Technical opinion for resolution would not adequately reviewed all information that supported the EIS.
Peru wants to expand oil range in indigenous territory
Expansion of the Camisea project to called Block 88 leads activists in the country to react and cause conflicts and waiver within the government itself.
Peru: the risks to Loreto
New book by Marc Dourojeanni reflects on the future and how to reduce the impact of development in this region still preserved.
The waste land in the Peruvian Amazon
In the region, each year only one of every 6 or 8 hectares deforested is used to produce, while the rest stay at rest.
Nahua indigenous will not allow expansion of Lot 88
Natives of the Nahua-Nanti Kagapakori reserve showed their opposition to the expansion of the gas project that will cause damage.
Alarming deforestation in the Colombian Amazon
Between 2011 and 2012, the country is showing further evolution in vegetation loss sample (117%) compared to the other Amazonians.
New bird species discovered in Peruvian cloud forest
The bird, called the Junin Tapaculo (Scytalopus gettyae), was discovered by a team of the University of Kansas during a survey in 2008.