Images from Google Earth and NASA taken at 700 km altitude show how the region has been pillaged.
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SERVINDI: Repsol sells oil shares of project in “isolated” indigenous territories
A Peruvian subsidiary of the oil company Repsol is selling 50% of Lot 39 to the Perenco company.
SERVINDI: UN Rapporteur calls for consultation for oil activities in Block 88
NGO considered vital that the Peruvian State meets the recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur James Anaya to protect indigenous peoples in isolation and initial contact.
Authorities will be reported by responsibility on garbage dump
Dump site has more than 30 years and received between 30 and 34 tons of garbage daily.
Alerta Ambiental, innovative citizen platform for environmental complaints
It is a platform that allows citizens to map, monitor and report environmental complaints related to deforestation, land use change and especially illegal mining.
Nanay-Pintuyacu-Chambira Conservation Area Alto celebrates third anniversary
The area conserves natural resources and fragile ecosystems of forests on white sand, flooded forests by black water upland forests.
Terra-i Ciat: Terra-i goes to the Peruvian Amazon to catch deforestation in the act
Terra-i published a video of its first field validation of its data on vegetation cover changes for the years 2011- 2012 in Pucallpa, Ucayali, in Peru. This validación was realizada between September and October of 2013.
La República: President of the Court of Madre de Dios appointed a judge with ties to illegal mining
President of the Superior Court of Madre de Dios replaced a judge related to illegal mining by another on equal terms.
New lizard species is discovered in the Manu National Park, Peru
In Peru’s Manu National Park, an amphibian was discovered, the Potamites erythrocularis, that has succeeded in adapting to relatively high and low temperatures.
AIDESEP: PROINVERSIÓN was sued for failing to prior consultation
PROINVERSIÓN did not conduct the consultation process to Kukamas peoples on draft waterway on Amazon rivers Marañón, Ucayali and Amazonas, in Peru.