The area affected by illegal gold mining in Peru's south-eastern Amazon region increased by 400% from 1999 to 2012, according to researchers using state-of-the-art mapping technology. Using airborne ...
People living upriver from gold-mining are the most contaminated, according to US-based scientists Ask about the fish in restaurants in the centre of Puerto Maldonado, the biggest town in Peru’s south ...
A new regional conservation area has been created in Loreto, the largest region in Peru’s Amazon. The Medio Putumayo Algodón Regional Conservation Area is the fourth protected natural area in the ...
Biodiversity reaches its zenith in south-east Peru. This vast wilderness of 2 million sq km of rainforests and savannahs is formed of the headwaters of three major river basins, the Jurua, Purús, and ...
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