Could Peru profit from being a carbon sink?
Environment
Peru’s forests store more than US emits in a year
Peru: fighting rampant illegal logging
Nearly 80 percent of the Peru’s timber exports are harvested illegally. Often this takes place on the lands of native people where residents are not only intimidated, but sometimes killed. Camera: Ronald Reategui
Peru: illegal logging
How Peru’s tropical hardwoods get felled, laundered and exported
How Peru’s illegal wood gets exported around the world
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/14/illegal-logging-peru-amazon-deforestation
Economic reforms spark environmental worries
Will ‘streamlining’ Peru’s economy be at the expense of the environment?
Bolivia’s ‘Mountain that Eats Men’
Ruth Buendia: Game Changer
Ruth told me her story for CCTV America. Shot by Ronald Reategui.
Peru readies for the COP20 climate change summit
In December, Peru will host the 20th annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The goal of the meeting is to work toward developing a new legally binding international treaty that will replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2q1jtdGH7Q
Will Peru’s New Gas Project Hurt Indigenous Tribes?
The government of Peru is going ahead with the expansion of a controversial gas project in an Amazonian reserve for indigenous people.