Not as They Please Anymore: Defending Property Rights in the Amazon
Amazon Indians who have been blocking roads, waterways and a state oil pipeline since April are declaring an "insurgency" against Peru's government for refusing to repeal laws that the protesters say...
View ArticleDrilling the Amazon
"Now the fish are going to disappear," said Luis Umpunchi, an Awajún Indian, one of about 20 people gathered around a broken oil pipeline in the Jayais community, in the northern Peruvian province of...
View ArticleDoes a Fire Need a Spark? indigenous revolt and Latin American politics
A national strike by thousands of rain-forest Indians is spawning accusations of a proxy war involving Venezuela and an emboldened peasant movement seeking to undermine Peru's pro-U.S. president. For...
View ArticleThe Oil Spills in the Peruvian Amazon
In the middle of the Peruvian Amazon, thousands of miles from the BP rig pouring oil into the Gulf of Mexico, oil spills have been a fact of life for more than 30 years. In villages like San...
View ArticleWho Owns Your DNA? the boundaries between bioprospecting and biopiracy
The Q'eros People of Peru claim that they were not consulted by the United States-based Genographic Project and they have not provided informed consent for their blood samples to be collected....Here...
View ArticleSustainable Fisheries: quotas and Peru
For decades anchovetas have been ground into fishmeal, of which Peru is the world’s top producer. They have suffered from rampant overfishing, whose effects are sometimes amplified by the disruptive El...
View ArticleThey Can Kill You, Illegal Logging in Peru
Illegal deforestation of habitats is threatening many species of birds living in Peru between the Andes Mountains and the Amazon rainforest, scientists say. One of the threatened habitats is home to...
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