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Robot hikes the Andes to cross Peru’s digital divide

Zoraida Portillo Kipi the robot is made from upcycled materials. Her backpack is a solar panel and she has been programmed to explain how it transforms solar energy into electricity, while encouraging students to make their own innovations using local materials. In a remote village of the Peruvian A

PERU’S FOREST INSPECTION AGENCY REGAINS INDEPENDENCE

In a dramatic U-turn, the Peruvian government published a decree that restores the independence of OSINFOR, the agency in charge of inspecting and sanctioning illegal logging crimes in the Peruvian Amazon. This comes just a few months after its independence had been seriously undermined by placing i

Uncontacted tribes’ rights recognized in Peru’s historic land pledge

Peru is to create two Amazonian reserves for the protection of uncontacted tribes, covering more than 2.5 million hectares. At least seven distinct groups of uncontacted tribes, including Matsés Indians, are known to be living in the areas comprising the new Yavari Tapiche and Yavari Mirin reserves

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Peru: Law prioritizes highway construction that could threaten indigenous communities

 Yvette Sierra Praeli Peru has passed a controversial law that makes highway construction in border areas and maintaining trucking roads in the Ucayali Region a national priority. On January 22, the Congress of the Republic of Peru enacted the new law. The move has sparked serious concern because t

Energy , Environment , Featured / 05/15/2017
Global Peatlands Initiative: Indonesia leading to Save the World’s Peat

Drained and burnt peatland is responsible for 5 per cent of anthropogenic carbon emissions Indonesia, the global peatland restoration leader, will reduce up to one gigaton of greenhouse gas emission The 2nd Global Peatlands Initiative Partner Meeting is attended by the Governments of Indonesia, Repu

Canadian oil company pulls out of uncontacted tribes land in Peru

A Canadian oil company is withdrawing from the territory of several uncontacted tribes in the Amazon where it had been intending to explore for oil. The company, Pacific E&P, had previously been awarded the right to explore for oil in a large area of the Amazon Uncontacted Frontier, an area o

Environment , Forests , Human Rights / 12/23/2016
Peru: Last female speaker of indigenous Amazonian language murdered

The last female speaker of the Resígaro language has been murdered in Peru. Her body was found decapitated at her home in the Amazon rainforest. Rosa Andrade, 67, lived with the Ocaina tribe. Her father was Ocaina and her mother Resígaro. The Ocaina and Resígaro tribes were victims of the rubber

Indigenous activist’s life in danger after opposing destruction of Peruvian Amazon

Washington Bolivar, an indigenous activist in Peru has been receiving death threats as he challenges the destruction of Amazon rainforest for timber extraction and conversion to oil palm. According to a press release by Forest Peoples Programme, in the course of the last month, human rights defen

La Rinconada – Chasing the Peruvian High

Nick Neumann and Walker Dawson | Breaking Borders La Rinconada is an illegal gold mining town in the Peruvian Andes, where environmental and social issues are expanding rapidly Over 60,000 people are working in these gold mines in in the highest inhabited place on earth. This documentary by Nick

Can Latin America do palm oil right?

Duncan Gromko As western hemisphere oil palm plantations boom, environmentalists eye ways to avoid repeating the devastation in Southeast Asia Orignially posted at Ensia, magazine showcasing environmental solutions in action. Republished by SixDegrees on arrangement with Ensia under Creative Commons

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