Amazon natives launch innovative forest conservation program

Native leaders and communities in Peru’s central Amazon region have launched an innovative forest conservation program, designed to halt deforestation and illegal logging in its tracks.

Peru Environment Ministry recommends setting limit for highly valued mahogany wood exports

A strict limit of 562 to 851 should be set on the number of mahogany trees allowed to be cut down annually for export, recommended Peru’s Environment Ministry in a recently published report. The report issued by Peru’s fledgling Environment Ministry urges the Agriculture Ministry to set a National Mahogany Exportation Quota for 2009. In [...]