‘Nexo’ prepared a series of comparisons to put into perspective the numbers that involve deforestation in the region
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Peru: Victims of trafficking must pay for their freedom
Caught in the middle of the jungle. Young captured in the form of ‘debt’ are forced to serve sexually to miners in ‘La Pampa’, in Madre de Dios. To leave this place they must raise money working in bars as escorts.
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Discover the last family of the Juma indigenous that returned to their homeland
The ethnic group that once had 15,000 members is today reduced to Aruká and her three daughters: the last family
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Unpunished Excesses: Follow the environmental trail of extractive industries in Peru
“Unpunished Excesses” is an investigative series developed by Convoca from the construction and analysis of the first database on the environmental obligations of the large mining and oil industry.
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Iriri River families fight to keep their Amazonian homelands
As new ecological stations and other preserves are set up across Brazil, rural colonos and beiradeiros may be forced from their long-time homesteads.
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Large slaughterhouses: The prosecutor who noosed deforestation
Daniel Azeredo’s persistence led him to understand the livestock chain in Pará and make a deal that turned slaughterhouses into forest guardians
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Large-scale vs. small-scale deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon
Previously we presented maps of deforestation hotspots in the Peruvian Amazon for the periods 2012-2014 and 2015, respectively. In this MAAP we present a complementary analysis based on the size of the deforestation events.
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Peru’s climate commitments threatened by advancing oil palm
The way Peru is pushing the production of oil palm in the Amazon is weakening these pledges.
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Gold mining ramps up, pushes deeper into Peruvian reserve
New data indicate a big surge in gold mining in and near Tambopata National Reserve over the past few months.