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A month since Peru’s oil spill, indigenous people criticize PetroPeru’s negligence
Almost a month since an oil spill, the new autonomous Wampis peoples’ government is asking the Peruvian government to take definitive and drastic measures.
Report from the Amazon: Altamira, a city transformed by the Belo Monte dam
Where rainforest stood, Amazon basin boom towns spring up to house workers building dams, roads, transmission lines and other infrastructure — cities like Altamira lack basic sanitation and have high crime rates.
The African palm oil frontier expands deeper into the Peruvian Amazon
Peru may be worried to conservation of its tropical forests, but deforestation has been increasing, much of it due to expanded cultivation of African palm oil.
Alarming proof of underreported bushmeat crisis in heart of Amazonia
When satellite imagery of the Brazilian rainforest shows lush, dense forests, most of us likely expect that those trees are packed with wildlife. But what if what we are actually seeing is an empty forest?
Peruvian government terminates head of forest watchdog agency
According to many, Rolando Navarro GĂłmez represented a shift in the Peruvian government’s commitment to fight illegal logging.
BNDES: Corruption guided award of huge Amazon dam contracts in Brazil
Brazil’s BNDES is the largest development bank in the world. It’s enormous, poorly managed pay outs to Amazon dam projects have fuelled mass corruption.
Wildlife catastrophe at Amazon dam a warning for future TapajĂłs dams
The extreme long term wildlife harm caused by the Babina dam, built in 1986, offers a cautionary ecological tale for 43 proposed TapajĂłs River Basin dams.
El Niño vs. the Amazon: researchers worry Brazil is not prepared
They stress the need for global leaders to address the growing problem of tropical forest fires, to both protect wildlife habitat and improve public health.
200,000 of Peru’s primates trafficked for pet trade or bushmeat yearly
Peru has 71 primate species, 8 of which are endemic — all are at risk from trafficking; hunters often target the most endangered species for the pet trade because, being rare, they earn the biggest profits.