The head of Peru’s Ministry of the Environment, Pulgar-Vidal, reveals that the oil spill of June 24 in Loreto was from a pipe that was pumping oil despite the fact that there was a ban.
Tag: protected areas
Satellite imagery verify deforestation from illegal mining in the Amazon
Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) indicates that illegal mining activity continues to increase in the Santiago River, Amazonas region, although there are mining concessions.
Brazilian state of Pará creates four protected areas in the Amazon
They are two Sustainable Development Reserves and two Wildlife Refuges. Two of them are in the area of influence of the hydroelectric Belo Monte.
Projects can remove 7.8 million “Maracana” stadium in the Brazilian Amazon
Protected areas may suffer loss of over 6.5 million hectares – an area equivalent to 7.8 million stadiums like the Maracanã – if projects of environmental impact that are in progress in the country are approved.
Cusco in waiting: Why obtain a concession for conservation delay so long?
In 2013 the Association of Young Conservationists of High Pilcomayo, in Peru, requested a concession to preserve space and ecosystem services in an area in the department of Cusco. They still do not get the concession.
They want to prove that the Madidi is the most biodiverse in the world
The Identity Madidi scientific project seeks more data on the ecosystem of the park. In six study sites 900 vertebrate species and 627 butterflies were recorded.
Peruvian won the National Geographic award for Leaders in Conservation
Victor Zambrano has been nominated for this global society as an “anonymous leader conservation” because of his environmental education work with children of Madre de Dios region.
I live in the jungle: strategies to produce and preserve protected areas in Brazil
Indigenous, riparians and farmers meet to discuss strategies to produce and preserve with valuation and integration of the Middle Land, in Pará state.
Bolivia, Brazil and Peru identify lines of work for the articulation of protected areas
One of the proposals was identifying new forest products under sustainable management systems in order to improve the financial sustainability of protected areas.
Justice suspends repeal of protected areas of Rondônia state, Brazil
Decision revoked act of the Legislative Assembly of the state, which abolished the decrees of creation of four protected areas of sustainable use.