The Brazilian development bank is investing heavily in a plan to build huge hydraulic dams in the Amazon and throughout South America.
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Peru: The brazen serpent that is poisoning the Amazon
Recent report finds pollution levels caused by oil spills in the northeastern Amazon region of Peru: has been found mercury and cadmium in the blood and urine of people of Cuninico and San Pedro (Loreto)
Peruvian won the National Geographic award for Leaders in Conservation
Victor Zambrano has been nominated for this global society as an “anonymous leader conservation” because of his environmental education work with children of Madre de Dios region.
Amazon indigenous Munduruku, the Head Cutters
They still retain much of their customs, language, rituals, culture intact. Except for the practice that transformed them into one of the most feared indigenous peoples of the Amazon: the practice of cutting off the head of the vanquished enemies in war.
Peruvian government affirms illegal plantation activity in Amazon rainforest
Peru’s forest authority has issued a statement to the London Stock Exchange condemning United Cacao’s plantation projects.
Is it possible to take care of the Amazon with the help of a computer?
From their computers, scientists and experts are translating technical data to allow us to see with new eyes what is happening with the Amazon.
The first check of $ 6 million to protect the Colombian Amazon
The governments of Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom made its first payment to Colombia for having complied with the reduction of deforestation between 2013 and 2014.
Brazilian chief accuses politician to demand that indigenous going nude
After disagreements, the chief Mapu also said that the former councilor Allison Lima wanted to keep indigenous’ money and appointed him as the author of death threats, but the political denies.
He makes a profit from removals of families by dams’ works
Infiltrated among riparian that will be withdrawn by the hydroelectric dams in the Amazon, Arlindo buys land that will be flooded to receive compensation.
Peruvian presidential candidates spur concerns among environmentalists
Peru will have a new president and, until now, the environment has not been one of the fundamental topics of the public debate.