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Informal gold mining in Peru's Amazon
2013-09-18 13:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tailings produced by informal mining in Peru's Madre de Dios region, 13 September 2013. A study of mercury contamination from rampant informal gold mining in Peru's Amazon says indigenous people who get their protein mostly from fish are the most affected, particularly their children
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Peru's culture ministry supports Amazon reserves
2013-08-12 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Peru's Vice-Ministry of Inter-Culturality (VMI) is officially supporting proposals to establish five reserves for indigenous peoples living in "voluntary isolation" in the Amazon rainforest totaling almost four million hectares. The VMI's support does not mean that the reserves will definitely be established, but they will now be discussed by a cross-sector government commission which is scheduled to convene with indigenous leaders in Peru's capital, Lima, on 26 and 27 August. The VMI, the...
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Exploitation of Peru's 'miracle' oil deposits in the Amazon is delayed
2013-07-30 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The controversial exploitation of heavy crude oil from one of the most inaccessible, most biodiverse regions of the Peruvian rainforest inhabited by indigenous people in "voluntary isolation" has been delayed. Anglo-French oil company Perenco, partnered by Vietnam's state oil company, PetroVietnam, was scheduled to start producing oil this month, but Perenco's head of communications, Nicolas de Blanpré, now says that "production is expected to start later in 2013." When the oil was declared commercially-viable...
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Perus poorest will soon have solar power
2013-07-18 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Solar is for rich people - or so it often seems. Theres the cost of the panels themselves (although theyre slowly becoming more affordable) and the fact that getting your landlord to plop solar panels atop your apartment building might be a lost cause (unless you live in these Seattle apartments). Community solar is catching on, but solar is still out of reach for most of us. Unless you live in Peru. The country just launched The National Photovoltaic Household Electrification Program, an initiative...
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Canadian oil company threatens the survival of Perus Jaguar people
2013-05-13 12:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Our leaders have fought with the Government many times, but they must be deaf or they just don't respect us The Yaquerana River in the Amazon rainforest marks the border between Peru and Brazil, but to the Matsés tribe, who live on both sides of it, this international border is meaningless. To them the streams, floodplains, and white-sand forests make up an ancestral territory that is shared by the entire tribe. Today they are at risk of losing their land to a Canadian oil company which plans...
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