8,415 gallons of fuel were decommissioned and machinery used for illegal mining was destroyed in Madre de Dios.
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Servindi: Andoas, a crude reflection of a wounded Amazon
Story shows the devastation caused by oil activity in the basins of the Pastaza, Corrientes and Tigre rivers in the Peruvian Amazon.
Madre de Dios districts were declared in emergency due to heavy rains
Peruvian government declared a state of emergency yesterday in various districts of the provinces of Tambopata, Manu and Tahuamanu, to perform immediate and necessary measures against the damage caused by the rains.
The Guardian: Lima talks should deliver first draft for 2015 climate deal, says Peru minister
Amazon country wants UN summit to steer the course for a binding global committment on carbon emissions.
Pasco: the Chungar Administrative Company was fined $ 53 thousand for contaminating Naticocha Norte lagoon
The penalty was imposed because the company exceeded the maximum permissible limits (LMP) for Iron in the effluent discharged into the North Naticocha lagoon.
This will be the Amazon Waterway project
The initiative, to be concessioned by Proinversion in May, aims to improve the navigability conditions of the waterway river system of the Peruvian Amazon.
287 amphibian and reptile species in Peruvian park sets world record
Surveys of the Manu National Park and its buffer zone turned up 155 amphibian and 132 reptile species, 16 more than the 271 species documented in Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park in 2010.
Invadors cut down three thousand trees in experimental lands of institute
The San Roque Agricultural Experiment Station was invaded and more than three thousand trees were cut down that were part of agroforestry systems of timber species.
Madre de Dios: for the first time, miners were sentenced to prison for iIlegal mining
The Superior Court of Justice of Madre de Dios sentenced three miners that were extracting gold illegally in the National Reserve of Tambopata.
Peru Gas Project Approved Despite Indian Concerns
The approved expansion of the Camisea project overlaps with an indigenous reserve and could threaten indigenous peoples by exposing them to diseases.