Rivers create species. Now, scientists have discovered a new primate that also appears to follow this rule, blocked off from his cousins by a confluence of rivers in the Peruvian Amazon.
Tag: Peru
Bahuaja Sonene National Park – Increasing deforestation within and around Southern Section
MAAP found increasing deforestation in the buffer zone and inside the Park. Were documented recent deforestation of 538 hectares within the Park and an additional 2,100 hectares in the surrounding buffer zone.
Amazon tribe creates 500-page traditional medicine encyclopedia
The encyclopedia, compiled by five shamans with assistance from conservation group Acaté, details every plant used by Matsés medicine to cure a massive variety of ailments.
Interactive map: Know illegal gold routes in South America
Ojo Público and the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA) toured the main centers of illegal gold production in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador. See the map
Peru’s mega-dam projects threaten Amazon River source and ecosystem collapse
Peru is planning a series of huge hydroelectric dams on the 1,700-kilometer (1,056-mile) Marañón River, which begins in the Peruvian Andes and is the main source of the Amazon River.
Mercury fish: gold mining puts downstream communities at risk in Peru
Pregnant mothers, children, and even adults could face health problems from gold mining pollution in Amazonian Peru
Community tourism fills niche around Tambopata National Reserve
Madre de Dios is best known for the high-end eco-lodges, especially around Tambopata and Manu National Park and Biosphere Reserve, which draw tens of thousands of foreign tourists a year.
Threatened indigenous forests store more than half the Amazon’s carbon
New study asserts lax, nonexistent land rights put indigenous-held forests at risk of development
Preparing the Shipibo Cultural Festival of Chariboan Joi
Representatives of Peruvian indigenous communities organize cultural festival to strengthen their indigenous identity.
Carnegie Airborne Observatory: Field plots offer biased view of the Amazon
Field plots in the Amazon are often not representative of the habitats surrounding them, potentially biasing extrapolations made across the region.