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 "rainforest"
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
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.
Without Machu Picchu you’ll enjoy the trip of a lifetime
SPECIAL: PERU WITHOUT MACHU PICCHU – Machu Picchu is closed. It will stay that way through all of February at the very least. Do you have your flights booked and are wondering what to do next? Should you cancel or put off your trip to Cuzco?
February 4, 2010 | Travel and Places
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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
Peru’s Garcia tussles with tribes over land rights
Peruvian President Alan Garcia’s push to lure foreign investors to the Amazon basin has run into homegrown opposition, with indigenous leaders saying he has disregarded a U.N. declaration that protects their rights to control land and natural resources.
Thousands of indigenous people have protested in Peru’s Amazon for much of the past 40 days, hoping to pressure Garcia to modify or strike down a series of laws he passed last year that encourage oil, mining and agricultural companies to invest billions of dollars in the mostly pristine region.
May 21, 2009 | News
The Shipibos of the River Rimac
They used to live and the edge of an Amazonian river that was an unending source of life. But they came to Lima, and now they live on river that is a polluted source of illness and death. Far from their lands, their children no longer speak Shipibo and their customs are almost forgotten.
April 13, 2009 | Lima City Guide, News
The last of the Taushiros
Peru’s Amazon rainforest has seen the last of the great Taushiro nation. Prospering in the area of the Quebrada Aguaruna in Alto Tigre, Loreto, for thousands of years, the Taushiro, like countless other tribes, have been wiped out by us and our world.
December 5, 2008 | Commentary/Opinion, Modern Peru
Peru’s Amazonian Indigenous
In Peru’s vast Amazon region there are 65 ethnic groups with their own distinct traditions and languages passed down orally from generation to generation. What does the future hold for these peoples?
September 5, 2008 | Commentary/Opinion
Peru drops plans to open up uncontacted tribes’ reserves
Peru’s government has dropped plans to open up uncontacted Indians’ reserves to oil exploration. The latest round of concessions, announced this week, do not include any of the uncontacted Indians’ reserves.
May 8, 2008 | News
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