The law is intended to finance measures on sites impacted by hydrocarbon activities in the northern jungle that involve risks to health, environment and demand priority attention and exceptional of the State.
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Five reasons to create the Sierra del Divisor National Park
The categorization presents Peru as a country that respects its international commitments, not only to conserve biodiversity, but also to combat illegal activities such as drug trafficking and illegal logging.
Ucayali opens monitoring unit against deforestation and illegal logging
Ucayali, in Peru, is the second region of the country with the highest rate of deforestation accumulated, reaching almost 700 000 hectares.
Oil palm company deforested 12000 hectares between 2010 and 2015 in Peru
In 2013, a report of the Peruvian Society for Ecological Development warned that the company Plantations Ucayali SAC there was deforested thousands of hectares of forest illegally in the Peruvian Amazon.
Loreto: Exploitation of açai in the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve
The first contract of sustainable use of huasai -small round fruit of Amazon palm that surprises for its nutritional properties- was signed in Loreto.
Carnegie Institute: 250,000 people are exposed to mercury contamination
Not only people are affected, as the flora and fauna are other victims of this metal, mainly in the Amazon
Loreto: Were suspended resolutions authorizing oil palm projects
Superior Court of Justice of Lima suspended four resolutions of the Ministry of Agriculture to allowed the development of two big oil palm projects in Peruvian region of Loreto .
Peru will allocate funds for environmental remediation of petroleum affectation
Government will establish a fund for environmental remediation of the basins of the rivers Pastaza, Tigre, Corrientes and Marañón (Loreto region), impacted by the extraction of hydrocarbons.
Nine countries in Latin America to protect the Amazon of climate change
Nine countries in the Amazon region came together to to face the effects of climate change through the “Regional Project to support the Amazon Vision 2018”.
Protest against Pluspetrol leaves 1 dead, 80 injured and 40 arrested
The incident occurred on Tuesday, February 10 when protesters tried to enter to the local police station and barracks, near where Pluspetrol has a warehouse.