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

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Organic Food in Lima

Healthy, organic and in all cases tasty. Organic options are growing in availability in the gastronomic capital of the Americas.

June 7, 2010 | Lima City Guide, Peruvian Food

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The “megaport” set to overshadow Ancón

The project to establish a port in the beautiful and traditional bay of Ancón has generated a lot of protest from locals who reject that private investment should take precedence over local wildlife, the visual aspect of the bay, their livelihoods, property prices and tourism.

May 24, 2010 | Commentary/Opinion, News

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Peruvian scientists create new form of biodegradable plastic from potato

A group of Peruvian scientists have created a plastic based on the potato, which as well as being an environmentally friendly alternative to plastic would provide an extra boost to Peru’s potato exports.

May 21, 2010 | News

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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.

December 18, 2009 | Nature, News

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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.

December 8, 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

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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.

November 17, 2009 | Nature, News

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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.

November 14, 2009 | Nature, News

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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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Lima’s sewage pollutes the ocean [Featured]

Lima, with a population of 9 million people, is home to one-third of Peru’s population. But the coastal city does not have a single sewage treatment facility. With no safe place for raw sewage to go, most of it ends up in the ocean.

Almost as big as the pollution itself, is the apathy that seems to exist towards the problem. Until last year, Peru has never had an environment ministry.

Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo reports on the realities that make going to the beach in Lima a dangerous proposition.

May 14, 2009 | News

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Another victim of Global warming: Quilca glacier disappears

For the second time in as many months, the affects of global warming on Peru’s rare tropical glaciers is made painfully evident.

Peru’s National Institute for Natural Resources (INRENA) has reported that the Quilca glacier in Puno, 5250 m.a.s.l., has now completely vanished. This is an ominous warming for a country where the vast majority of the population lives on a desert coast who’s rivers are fed by melt waters from similar glaciers.

January 23, 2009 | News

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