Government operation found and evicted one thousand illegal miners in the Madre de Dios Region.
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Fuel control in Madre de Dios region won’t affect legal businesses
Controls on fuels in the Madre de Dios region will only damage illegal mining activities according to High Commissioner Daniel Urresti.
Kukama people expects confirmation of impacts on Marañón basin
Indigenous will know the results of environmental monitoring conducted to evaluate the consequences of over forty years of oil operations in the area.
Spill on Block 67 contradicts renewal extractive activity
With a month of delay, the Perenco company confirmed its first oil spill last December, in the Loreto region, contradicting the Peruvian president, who called Perenco’s work as “the renewal of extractive activity in the region”
Expansion of Camisea project violates rights and threatens lives
Project would be about to be approved after the January 13, 2014 Pluspetrol responded to the last three “observations” pending.
First Private Conservation Area managed by native community was recognized
Area is in the buffer zone of the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, which is recognized as a Ramsar area.
Peru blocks plans for new indigenous reserve as oil production starts
Pressure from Perupetro halts plan for a reserve for indigenous people living between the Napo and Tigre rivers.
“Legend of the forest loggers”, in PDF
It is the first issue of the comic series to be published by the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA) on topics related to the environment.
Peru approved the National Strategy for Interdiction of Illegal Mining
The objective is to eradicate illegal mining and reducing crime related to this activity, such as trafficking in persons, tax evasion and ecological damage.
Despite enthusiasm for REDD+, deforestation in Peru continues
The economic and political conditions in Peru favor an increase in deforestation, despite the country having set a target of zero net deforestation by 2021, a new study shows.