Oil palm plantations on a large scale started in 2011 near the town of Nueva Requena, Ucayali region, today cover almost 12,200 hectares.
Monthly Archives: May 2015
The Amazon rainforest absorbs less and less carbon
According to “Nature” magazine, the Amazon rainforest goes wrong. Every day catches less carbon.
Detection of new roads (to cut forest?) in the Peruvian Amazon
Satellite images include the construction of almost 150 km of roads, possibly to extraction of illegal timber from protected areas in Peru.