Much of the Nahua people have been affected by mercury poisoning, which causes anemia and acute kidney problems.
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Indigenous community takes hostages in an effort to draw attention to oil spill
A helicopter from Peru’s Air Force that was helping to monitor the area has been stopped and held by a group of locals. There were food and fresh water aboard, meant to be distributed among the people of Mayuriaga.
Want to keep tabs on that new logging road in Peru? Well, now you can
A new deforestation alert system lets users know about forest changes in just a week.
A month since Peru’s oil spill, indigenous people criticize PetroPeru’s negligence
Almost a month since an oil spill, the new autonomous Wampis peoples’ government is asking the Peruvian government to take definitive and drastic measures.
Amazon Devastated: The financial plan of Melka group
Convoca.pe flew over the deforested area of Tamshiyacu, in Loreto, Peru, and found that the company of American citizen Dennis Melka continued to operate even though the Ministry of Agriculture had ordered them to stop their activities.
Berta Cáceres one of hundreds of land protesters murdered in last decade
Killings of environmental protesters, often indigenous people fighting to protect land, on the rise with 2015 likely to have been the deadliest year on record.
The oil curse harasses indigenous women of the Amazon
In addition to the environmental impact of oil spills in the Peruvian Amazon, indigenous women of the same areas remain poor, isolated, and exposed to diseases and domestic violence.
Scientific American: Oil Spills Stain Peruvian Amazon
The recent leak of 3,000 barrels of oil in Peru’s Amazon jungle will cause incalculable damage, according to scientists.
The African palm oil frontier expands deeper into the Peruvian Amazon
Peru may be worried to conservation of its tropical forests, but deforestation has been increasing, much of it due to expanded cultivation of African palm oil.
PetroPeru Oil Spill: Confession and damage control
After allegations about Petroperu workers who paid minors to collect oil spilled in their communities, in Amazonas, at least one has been identified.