Finding a marketplace for the Amazon rainforest. Eco-tourism as a conservation tool.
Read More“Because we don’t have anything we’ll do everything.” was the motto in Villa El Salvador, the burgeoning suburb in Lima’s south. These hard working values are instilled in the new generations who are Peru’s new middle class.
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Scientist Erika Cuellar has championed the Gran Chaco, South Americas second largest wilderness after the Amazon. She’s educating its inhabitants on how to preserve their expansive home.
Read MoreIn the Andes of Peru the blood festival is a custom, which dates back decades, perhaps even centuries. More than a bullfight, the centerpiece of this festival is the battle between a bull and a condor.
Read MoreSanta Cruz is Bolivia’s largest and wealthiest city but it’s also become a centre for the country’s thriving illegal drugs trade. Bolivia is now the world’s third largest producer of cocaine and it’s also a key transit country for trafficking. All this is leading to a spike in violent crime.
Read MoreBolivia’s president Evo Morales is cleared for a third re-election in 2014. Can anyone beat him?
Read MoreDan Collyns takes us to the trendiest new restaurant in La Paz, Bolivia, the brainchild of top Danish chef and Noma founder, Claus Meyer. Could it be the vanguard of a gastronomic revolution in the land-locked country.
Read MoreFor CCTV Americas Now, Dan Collyns takes us to Peru, where four non-actors have come together linked only by the dramatic events that shaped their early lives. In the 1980s and 1990s an internal conflict raged in Peru between communist gorillas and the state. Hyper inflation and bad governing also affected the country. The play is a way for the actors to express how they were affected during these events.
Read MoreWe hope this is how scientists can impact on climate change policy.
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