Cold wave sends Amazon temperatures to icy depths
Temperatures in Puerto Maldonado this weekend dropped as low as 10°c (50°f) as cold air swept down from the icy Andes in a phenomenon that is often seen at least once each year.
July 19, 2010 | News
Posts tagged "amazon"
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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.
July 2, 2010 | Commentary/Opinion, Nature, News
Oil spill in the Amazon rainforest, 400 barrels released into the Marañón river
LATEST NEWS: An oil spill has occurred on the edge of the Pacaya-Samira National Reserve, also home to 28 indigenous communities. A Pluspetrol tanker has had its hull ruptured, they state a clean up is under way.
June 22, 2010 | News
Perenco advises staff to ‘Scare the uncontacted tribes or tell them to go home’
Oil company Perenco has released a plan revealing how its workers would react if they meet any uncontacted Indians, the same they claim not to exist.
May 11, 2010 | News
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.
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.
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.
November 30, 2009 | Commentary/Opinion, Nature, News
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Little town of Quince Mil is becoming a Hotspot [Featured]
For TIME, Lucien Chauvin writes about developments in the little town of Quince Mil, from the benefits of the new Inter-Oceanic Highway that links the Atlantic with the Pacific via Peru and Brazil, to the environment problems it will bring.
November 28, 2009 | Cusco Guide, News
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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A marvellous hummingbird display [Featured]
The Marvellous Spatuletail is perhaps one of the most beautiful, rare and unique of Peru’s native creatures. This hummingbird, that only exists in a few small isolated areas of cloud forest, and its special mating ritual are introduced to us by the BBC. Their camera team was the first to ever record the male spatuletail’s attempts to woo a female, the whole mating display from start to finish.
November 3, 2009 | Amazonas Guide, Nature
Land grabs by technicality in the Amazon
Indigenous Amazonians risk loosing their ancestral lands by way of a Government slight-of-hand which grants concessions and exploration rights to wealthy foreign energy companies. One of these, US oil company Hunt Oil, which has been granted rights to one of the world’s last untouched areas of cloud forest with unsurpassed levels of bio-diversity, is now demonstrating how [...]
October 28, 2009 | Commentary/Opinion, News
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The Great River Amazon Raft Race 2009 [Featured]
The Amazon Rafting Club, based in Iquitos, Peru, invites rafters, canoeists, rowers, paddlers and adventurers from all over the world to compete in this year’s event. The 3 day race will start in the town of Nauta on Friday, 25th September 2009, and finish in the City of Iquitos on Sunday, 27th September 2009.
September 9, 2009 | Loreto & Iquitos Guide, News
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