Peru’s forests have long faced a growing threat of deforestation. In recent months, environmental groups have spoken out ...

The Amazon Soy Moratorium, a sectoral agreement which protects the Brazilian Amazon from deforestation, is under threat.

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 ...

Peru has attracted millions of dollars in forest conservation initiatives and has 254 public and private parks and protected areas, yet deforestation has been rising steadily since 2001 by more ...

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 ...

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 ...

Survival International said the photos were taken June 26-27 and show about 53 male Mashco Piro on the beach. The group estimated as many as 100 to 150 tribal members would have been in the area ...

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.