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Scientists have conducted what they call the first systematic, historical account of the impacts on wildlife in the Amazon basin of the 20th century international trade in...

Even more alarming is how the park has been divided into different zones by the Management Plan approved in November 2016. Instead of being a “strictly protected zone”...

Semuc or Semuq Champey, in the Alta Verapaz department, was identified as a conservation target by a 1989 law and declared a “protected areea” and “natural monument” in 2005

Gold-rush in the 8.5m hectare Madre de Dios region began in the 1980s and, by 2012, miners had destroyed more than 50,000 hectares of forest, dumping 100s of tons of mercury

Problems caused by operations in this region tend to only make Peruvian or international media when there is some kind of “spill” - oil painting black the forest, fish, fauna.

Huge swathe of new “protected natural area” in Peru’s Amazon is included within an oil and gas concession run by Canadian company.

Gold-mining is a major cause of deforestation in Peru’s Amazon. To date, by far the hardest-hit region is Madre de Dios, where whole areas have been transformed into deserts.