Wampis and Awajun authorities called for a process of consultation with communities before continuing oil exploration in Lot 166, made by Pacific Rubiales and Maurel Et Prom companies.
Monthly Archives: August 2014
OEFA: Ministry of Environment initiated administrative procedure against Petroperu by spill
The Agency for Assessment and Environmental Control (OEFA in Spanish) of Peru began administrative disciplinary procedure against Petroperu by the spill occurred on June 30, 2014 in the North Peruvian Pipeline near the Cuninico River in Loreto.
Governors of Climate: Acre is celebrated as the best student
In preparatory meeting for COP 20, the state of Acre hosted the encounter of Task Force of Governors on Climate and Forests in a tone of celebration.
CBS News: Amazon’s biggest fish faces threat of extinction
A recent survey of fishing communities in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, found that the arapaima is already extinct in some parts of the Amazon basin. In other parts of the Amazon, its numbers are rapidly dwindling.
Green Task Forceof the Governors’ Climate and Forests meets in Acre State, Brazil
Annual meeting of the Task Force of the Governors’ Climate and Forests will discuss policies on developing low carbon.
Peruvian company paid 10 cents per square meter in the Amazon and promptly deforested
Farmers in Tamshiyacu, in Loreto region, report that the culprit of the deforestation that has been occurring is Cacao del Perú Norte, a company that kills the primary forests of the area without the permission of the regional entity.
Protected areas controlled Amazon deforestation in recent decades
Protected areas were able to control and prevent, to some extent, deforestation progress in recent decades in the Peruvian Amazon, said researcher of the Group of Analysis for Development, Manuel Glave Testino.
One tribe against a megaproject in the Brazilian Amazon
The Munduruku community says that if the Brazilian government moves ahead with its plan to build several dams near the Tapajós River in the Amazon, its group will disappear.
Peruvian Minister of Environment wants the Amazon discussed at COP 20
por Giovanny Vera and Gustavo Faleiros Pulgar Vidal will be the president of COP 20, the UN Summit on Climate Change hosted in Lima. Foto: InfoAmazonia.org Peru’s Minister of the Environment, Manuel Pulgar Vidal, interviewed by the InfoAmazonia.org team in Lima on the 8th, said that he hopes to sign an agreement about the REDD+ […]
InfoAmazonia Ciudadano: Water and Citizenship in the Amazon
In the Amazon, not lack water. However, the management of water resources in the region, often divorced from social participation, threatens sources of survival of its inhabitants and dozens of species.