Cocoa plantations near Tamshiyacu, northeastern Peru, devastated more than 2,100 hectares of forest between May 2013 and August 2014 in an area called Fundo Tamshiyacu
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Deforestation caused by gold mining expands in Peru
Near real time deforestation monitoring project stresses that deforestation by gold mining continues to expand in southern Peruvian Amazon (Madre de Dios region).
Can Peru stop ‘ethical chocolate’ from destroying the Amazon?
NGOs allege illegal deforestation of primary rainforest to plant cacao and oil palm, in Tamshiyacu, Loreto region, Peru.
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.
The American financier accused of deforestation in Peru
Dennis Melka is identified as financier of a network of 25 companies that have purchased hundreds of properties in the Peruvian Amazon, according to the report by the Environmental Investigation Agency organization.
A decade of forest deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon
The latest statistics from National Forest Programme of Peru -analyzed by the data team of OjoPúblico- estimate that between 2003 and 2013 Peru lost 1’306.507 hectares of Amazonian forests.
Stories about routes of illegal gold in the Andean Amazon
OjoPúblico and the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA, in Spanish) started distributing “Roads of Gold” (#Rutasdeloro): stories about illegal mining in the Amazon in five countries in the region: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru .
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.
Peru21: ‘We demand that Pluspetrol remedy its environmental liabilities’, says Peruvian president
President Ollanta Humala demanded the Argentinian Pluspetrol solve environmental conflicts it has with native on a lot that was handed in concession in the Peruvian Amazon.