Four indigenous leaders of the Alto Tamaya-Saweto Native Community in Peru were killed by bullets while traveling into the forest going to the Apiwtxa village, in Brazil, on the border of the two countries.
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Folha de S. Paulo: Illegal logger companies make money with corruption in Peru
The illegal timber in Peru overcomes to the rules and still gets to the American markets.
ICAA: Oil palm cultivation in the Andean Amazon in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
Watch an interview on the situation and prospects of land use change caused by oil palm monocultures in the Amazon forests.
Loreto: the dump that resists transfer (multimedia report)
The 1.5 kilometer road from Iquitos – Nauta was not a suitable place to dispose waste because of the harm to the health of people living nearby, and it is affecting the biodiversity of the area.
Portal do Meio Ambiente: Declaration calls for the recognition of Panamazon role
The Statement of Lima, result of Third Pan-Amazon Meeting, called the Peruvian government to assume an essential role in COP 20, to position the region as vital to achieving the goals and objectives of the Climate Convention.
The Washington Post: Peru fights gold fever with fire and military force
As many as 40,000 illegal miners — mostly poor, Quechua-speaking laborers from Peru’s Andean highlands — have invaded some of the most pristine and biologically rich sections of ancient forest in the Amazon basin.
La Región: Amazon research institute will use InfoAmazonia to disseminate studies
The director of the Bioinfo Program, of the Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon (IIAP in Spanish), Luis Campos Baca, said the construction of networks like this will allow disseminate the knowledge generated by Amazonian institutions.
Minister of Environment of Peru wants Amazon in the COP 20
Minister Manuel Pulgar Vidal said he expects seal the deal around the mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, during the 20th UN Climate Change Conference, which takes place this year in Peru.
Survival calls on Peru to protect isolated indigenous in the Amazon
Indigenous denounces murders to their family probably by illegal loggers and drug traffickers.
El Diario: Indigenous presents demand to stop oil project in Peru
Wampis and Awajun authorities called for a process of consultation with communities before continuing oil exploration in Lot 166, made by Pacific Rubiales and Maurel Et Prom companies.