The National University of San Marcos will hold the Seminar on Oral Tradition and Peruvian Cultures, Memories of the Amazon and Rubber, to recover popular culture and traditions.
Tag: conservation
Opinión: Evo enacts law to protect dolphins of a unique specie in Bolivia
Bolivian President enacted a law declaring Bolivian Amazonian dolphins natural heritage.
Madre de Dios: Peruvian government recognizes private conservation area Benjamin I Forest
Peruvian Government recognized for ten renewable years Private Conservation Area Forest Benjamin I, with 29 hectares of forest in the buffer zone of the Tambopata Reserve.
REDD+: challenges and beneficiaries in the Amazon
On interview, group of specialists from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) share their views on REDD + projects in the Amazon, highlighting who should be the beneficiaries and what are the main challenges.
Mamirauá: landscapes of a flooded forest
Region regulated by the water cycle, the flood comes to have a variation that can reach up to 12 meters high.
El Deber: Madidi, among the most biodiverse on Earth
Report presented in the World Conservation Congress in Korea, considers the Madidi National Park in Bolivia one of the most biodiverse protected areas on the planet.
Opinión: Tsimane Mosetene opt for ecotourism
The Mosetene Tsimane people from Bolivia, with a ecotourism community project can preserve their habitat and way of life, in an initiative recognized by the United Nations.
Terra: ‘Flying Rivers’ transport water from the Amazon to Brazil
While drought causes damages to the world, Gérard Moss shows the Amazon “flying rivers”, atmospheric water courses originated in the forest which feed the rains in Brazil and South America.
Pictures: Bolivian park may have the world’s highest biodiversity
Madidi National Park in Bolivia may be the world’s most biodiverse place, according to survey by the the Bolivian Park Service and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
Madre de Dios: The wealth of its forests, its people
Madre de Dios is one of Peru’s Amazonian departments that faces serious threats such as mining and the expansion of the agricultural frontier.