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.

Amazon Update: Peru Government declares state of emergency in 9 eastern districts

The Executive declared a state of emergency for 60 days in the the Amazon districts of four departments in eastern Peru, including Loreto, Amazonas, Ucayali and Cusco. The decision ws triggered by continuing protests from indigenous communities throughout the Amazon region, most recently in the northeast at Petroperu’s Nº 5 pump station on the North [...]