There is greater awareness of the impacts of illegal logging, deforestation and wildlife trafficking, which affects our forests and impact on native communities, habitats and the economy, said a Peruvian authority.
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Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia
The encyclopedia, compiled by five shamans with assistance from conservation group Acaté, details every plant used by Matsés medicine to cure a massive variety of ailments.
Progresses fund for environmental remediation of oil blocks in Peru
Fund will be used for environmental remediation of the basins of the rivers Pastaza, Corrientes, Tigre and Marañón, in indigenous territories affected by nearly 45 years of oil activity.
Interoceanic railroad can kill the lungs of the world: the Amazon
China, the biggest beneficiary of the project, would provide funding, training and construction of the railway line that will transport goods from Brazil.
Madre de Dios: Mining entering and affects the Amarakaeri communal reserve
Report of the Monitoring Project of the Andean Amazon (MAAP) shows how deforestation caused by gold mining has achieved to enter the Communal Reservation Amarakaeri in 2014 and 2015.
Peru: Deforestation by gold mining expands into Communal Reserve
According MAAP, deforestation reached the southeastern sector of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve during 2013 and continued to expand between 2014 and 2015. An analysis revealed that the causative factor of deforestation was gold mining.
Water is life for the Kichwa people of Sarayaku town, in Ecuador
In a video in Quechua language, the importance of water for the people of Sarayaku is shown. This one adds to a long and well-documented anti-extraction of oil, gas and minerals in their territory.
Interactive map: Know illegal gold routes in South America
Ojo Público and the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA) toured the main centers of illegal gold production in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador. See the map
Dirty Gold: the track behind the London Bullion Market
The secret history of the companies that financed with millions of dollars the purchase of illegal gold in South America.
Chinese interoceanic railroad and our disordered vision of development
The idea of a railway being Brazil and Peru through the Amazon is not new. A decade ago had five proposals in Peru and one in Brazil. The new thing now is China.