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Deforestation in Peru's Amazon has remained relatively stable in recent years, with a significant spike in 2020 during the first year of the pandemic. "An entity that can continue expanding ...
Forest conservation initiatives in Peru in the past decades have had little to no effect, as deforestation continues to skyrocket in the country, according to a new study by the International ...
The Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) examined all five Mennonite colonies in Peru (Chipiar, Vanderland, Osterreich, Providencia, and Masisea) and found that deforestation was ...
Human Rights Watch has warned that Peru's Congress is seriously undermining the judicial system's ability to combat organized ...
BOGOTA, Colombia — A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation ...
The anti-forest law flies in the face of Peru’s COP commitments to reduce deforestation and may affect allocation of funds from the COP 26 Global Forests Finance Pledge. It also contravenes free trade ...
Deforestation Rate: 165 kha/year. Approximately 1100 square miles of Peru’s forest becomes subject to deforestation every year. The increasing rate of deforestation in Peru is due to many ...
An advocacy group for Indigenous peoples has released photographs of a reclusive tribe's members searching for food on a beach in the Peruvian Amazon, calling it evidence that logging concessions ...
Seven youth plaintiffs, ages ranging from 14 to 16, argue that the state is violating their right to a healthy environment by failing to curb Amazon deforestation and mitigate climate change.
In January, Peru loosened restrictions on deforestation, which critics dubbed the "anti-forest law." Researchers have since warned of the rise in deforestation for agriculture and how it is making ...
Groups belonging to the Mennonites have emerged as a notable source of deforestation in Peru's Amazon, having cut down an area close to the size of Manhattan since 2017, according to a new report.