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English priest stops Amazon logging giants in their tracks [Featured]

English priest stops Amazon logging giants in their tracks [Featured]

A mild-looking, bespectacled Catholic priest, born in Portsmouth, educated at Oxford and now working in the Peruvian rainforest, is behind an important victory for local people over the logging companies laying waste to large stretches of Amazonia.

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TWENTY rare pink dolphins killed in Peru’s Amazon

TWENTY rare pink dolphins killed in Peru’s Amazon

Five pink Amazon river dolphins have been found dead in the Bagazán lagoon, in the Requena province of Loreto. Authorities suspect they were poisoned by fishermen who see them as a threat.

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Peru’s tropical glaciers to disappear in the next few years

Peru’s tropical glaciers to disappear in the next few years

The glaciers below 5,000m.a.s.l. that make up Peru’s famous Cordillera Blanca in the Ancash region are expected to disappear in the next few years, experts warn.

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Peru grappling with deforestation

Peru grappling with deforestation

While Peru has enjoyed large growth from the oil sector and gas industry, as well as other sectors, over the past ten years, the Latin American nation is still struggling with deforestation of the rainforest and illegal activity.

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Fur seals leave Galapagos and head for Peru

Fur seals leave Galapagos and head for Peru

A colony of fur seals has moved 1,500km away from the Galapagos Islands, a Peru-based organisation which monitors the aquatic mammals has said. Average sea temperatures off northern Peru have risen by 6C in past 10 years.

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Emergency declared in Cusco: Heavy rains flood the region

Emergency declared in Cusco: Heavy rains flood the region

UP TO THE MINUTE NEWS – State of Emergency in six provinces of Cusco and all of Apurímac. Weather service reports rain around 67% in excess of the norm. 66 people rescued from Aguas Calientes by helicopters, 3000 tourists and locals are trapped. 8 people dead, including two foreign tourists, and more than 7000 families left homeless.

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Lima sees six months of rain in one week

Lima sees six months of rain in one week

Lima – the mild rainless desert city, but for how long? Winters have been growing colder and wetter, summers arriving later than ever.

This week alone, supposedly the first full week of the first month of summer if we discount November – a time when most of the population of Lima usually heads to the beach – has seen 50% of Lima’s typical annual rainfall after an already wet winter.

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Peru begins reforestation, 60 million trees to be planted

Peru begins reforestation, 60 million trees to be planted

After centuries of heavy deforestation, Peru is undertaking a campaign to reforest the highlands with 60 million trees – an act that not only helps prevent the terrible flash floods that plague the tree-less mountains, but also hopes to make a small dent in climate change affecting the country.

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NBC Nightly News: Melting Glaciers lead to water wars

NBC Nightly News: Melting Glaciers lead to water wars

Three reports from NBC’s Nightly News program about the devastating impact on Peru from melting glaciers due to changing climate patterns.

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Kandozi tribe ravaged by disease and neglect

Kandozi tribe ravaged by disease and neglect

Peru’s subsidiary of the WWF has warned that over 60% of the ethnic Kandozi people in the Peruvian Amazon are dying from the ravages of Hepatitis B and neglect from the Peruvian state.

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Brutal deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon [Featured]

Brutal deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon [Featured]

Forests are converted into deserts due to the advance of informal mining that illegally extracts gold. Regular buying and selling of mercury is demanded by locals, who use it for the extraction of the precious metal.

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Hundreds of Sea Lions poisoned in Colán

Hundreds of Sea Lions poisoned in Colán

A terrible sight on Piura’s most picturesque beach – hundreds of Sea Lions washed up dead on the white sands. In front of homes and hotels, the bodies of these animals rot, all so that the fishermen that poisoned them can continue dangerous and unsustainable over-fishing the seas.

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