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		<title>Magnitude 6.2 Earthquake Hits Southern Peru, Northern Chile</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 05:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chile earthquake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A magnitude 6.2 earthquake rocked southern Peru and northern Chile early Monday, the United States Geological Survey, or USGS. The epicenter of the quake was on the Chilean side of the border, about 28 miles from the Chilean town of Putre and 34 miles from the Peruvian city of Tacna, the USGS said. The quake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peru&#8217;s Environmental Health Office issues Precautions in Wake of Dying Pelicans and Dolphins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 18:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flora & Fauna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anchovy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dolphins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Niño]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pelicans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No beaches and no raw fish is the Environmental Health office&#8217;s precautionary warning this week, following the death of hundreds of pelicans and dolphins along the 1,000-kilometer stretch between Piura and Lima.   Although specialists say there is no risk involved to humans, either by going to the beach or eating fish, the warning is to prevent any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunat Chief Says Gov&#8217;t To Implement Mechanisms In June To Combat Illegal Mining</title>
		<link>http://www.peruviantimes.com/05/sunat-chief-says-govt-to-implement-mechanisms-in-june-to-combat-illegal-mining/15653/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 18:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law & Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[illegal mining]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The head of Peru’s tax agency Sunat, Tania Quispe, said the government plans to establish by June mechanisms to halt the supply of chemical inputs and machinery that are used by illegal gold miners, state news agency Andina reported. “We are talking about May or June at the latest,” Quispe said. “We plan to pull out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy Rains Cause More Than 50 Deaths Since November</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 15:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andean Air Mail &#38; PERUVIAN TIMES</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Provinces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iquitos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Loreto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peru floods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peru rainy season]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains in Peru have caused the deaths of 53 people over the past six months, according to the country’s National Civil Defense Institute, Indeci. Since November, some 267,000 people have been affected by the rains, daily El Comercio reported. The rains have affected all of Peru’s 25 regions, according to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consultants Hand In Review On Newmont&#8217;s Minas Conga</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andean Air Mail &#38; PERUVIAN TIMES</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Provinces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental impact study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gregorio Santos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marco Arana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minas Conga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newmong Mining]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three international consultants charged with reviewing Newmont Mining’s multi-billion dollar Minas Conga copper-gold project have turned over their findings to the Peruvian government. Cabinet Chief Oscar Valdes and top government officials received the report during a press conference on Tuesday. Authorities and the consultants did not provide many details about the findings, adding that the full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minas Conga Opponents Hold Protest Awaiting Environmental Review</title>
		<link>http://www.peruviantimes.com/12/minas-conga-opponents-hold-protest-awaiting-environmental-review/15500/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Provinces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buenaventura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental impact study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minas Conga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peru gold production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yanacocha]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Opponents of the huge Minas Conga copper and gold project in Cajamarca region held a 24-hour protest on Wednesday, only days ahead of when the government is expected to make public a review by three independent consultants on the project’s environmental viability.  The review was handed in to the government at the end of last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COUNTRY NOTES: Downtown in The Lost Cities of the Amazon</title>
		<link>http://www.peruviantimes.com/24/country-notes-downtown-in-the-lost-cities-of-the-amazon-2/15374/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andean Air Mail &#38; PERUVIAN TIMES</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exploration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peruvian History Information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["1491"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Tree of Rivers"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1493]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazonia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles C. Mann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colonel Percy Fawcett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conquest of the Incas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Hemming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[— By Nicholas Asheshov — Some weeks ago two events, one of them startling, came together to pin-point the mysterious new conundrum of the Amazon. The first was the appearance on a busy riverbank in the Madre de Dios of a few dozen members of a previously-isolated group of Indians.  They killed someone who had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peru&#8217;s Pulgar-Vidal Proposes Greater Regional Cooperation On Illegal Mining</title>
		<link>http://www.peruviantimes.com/22/perus-pulgar-vidal-proposes-greater-regional-cooperation-on-illegal-mining/15330/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon Environment Summit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peruvian Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar-Vidal proposed that nations in the Amazon basin share experiences on confronting illegal mining, which has been blamed for causing serious environmental damage in the world’s most bio-diverse rainforests. “It (illegal mining) is not a problem that is exclusive to Peru, but also countries like Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia and Brazil,&#8221; Pulgar-Vidal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Peruvians Injured In Mexico Quake &#8211; Government</title>
		<link>http://www.peruviantimes.com/21/no-peruvians-injured-in-mexico-quake-government/15315/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andean Air Mail &#38; PERUVIAN TIMES</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexico 7.4º earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oaxaca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pisco 2007 earthquake]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No Peruvians have been injured by a large earthquake that hit Mexico on Tuesday, according to Peru’s consul general in that country, Augusto Freyre. “We have received reports from the three consulates in Mexico (Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey) and there are no reports of [Peruvians] being injured due to the quake,” Freyre said, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South American Environment Ministers Meet On Amazon Environment</title>
		<link>http://www.peruviantimes.com/20/south-american-environment-ministers-meet-on-amazon-environment/15305/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rio+20]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Environment Ministers from eight South American countries are meeting for a two day summit, starting Tuesday, to discuss actions to protect the Amazon rain forest, Peru’s state news agency Andina reported. The summit, which was inaugurated by Peruvian Foreign Affairs Minister Rafael Roncagliolo, aims to create projects to ensure sustainable development in the Amazon. The [...]]]></description>
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