Environment Archives - Page 4 of 6

Peru: the business of reversing deforestation

Dan Collyns Business, Environment December 18, 2014September 24, 2015Amazon, climate change, COP20, deforestation, lima, Peru, UN, UNFCCC

Could Peru profit from being a carbon sink?

Peru’s forests store more than US emits in a year

Dan Collyns Business, Environment November 13, 2014January 10, 2015Amazon, carbon, Carnegie Institute, Greg Asner, mapping, Peru

Peru: fighting rampant illegal logging

Dan Collyns Business, Environment, Human Rights October 27, 2014September 24, 2015Amazon, illegal logging, indigenous, loreto, OSINFOR, Peru

Nearly 80 percent of the Peru’s timber exports are harvested illegally. Often this takes place on the lands of native people where residents are not only intimidated, but sometimes killed. Camera: Ronald Reategui

Peru: illegal logging

Dan Collyns Development, Environment October 20, 2014September 24, 2015Amazon, illegal logging, Peru

How Peru’s tropical hardwoods get felled, laundered and exported

How Peru’s illegal wood gets exported around the world

Dan Collyns Development, Environment October 14, 2014October 27, 2014Ashaninka, edwin chota, illegal logging, loreto, Peru, ucayali

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/14/illegal-logging-peru-amazon-deforestation

Economic reforms spark environmental worries

Dan Collyns Business, Environment July 3, 2014September 24, 2015business, climate change, COP20, Environment, Peru

Will ‘streamlining’ Peru’s economy be at the expense of the environment?

Bolivia’s ‘Mountain that Eats Men’

Dan Collyns Environment, Human Rights June 24, 2014June 25, 2014bolivia, Cerro Rico, Mining, Potosi

Ruth Buendia: Game Changer

Dan Collyns Environment, Human Rights May 26, 2014September 24, 2015Amazon, Ashaninka, Featured, indigenous, Pakitzapango, Peru, River Ene, Ruth Buendia

Ruth told me her story for CCTV America. Shot by Ronald Reategui.

Peru readies for the COP20 climate change summit

Dan Collyns Development, Environment April 21, 2014September 24, 2015climate change, COP20, Featured, Peru

In December, Peru will host the 20th annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The goal of the meeting is to work toward developing a new legally binding international treaty that will replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2q1jtdGH7Q

Will Peru’s New Gas Project Hurt Indigenous Tribes?

Dan Collyns Business, Environment, Human Rights February 12, 2014September 24, 2015block 88, camisea, indigenous people in voluntary isolation, Peru

The government of Peru is going ahead with the expansion of a controversial gas project in an Amazonian reserve for indigenous people.