Congress allows therapeutic abortion amid religious outry
Science & Health
Peru cracks down on antique trafficking
Peru is known for its rich cultural heritage. For centuries, though, that heritage has been plundered, and many of the country’s artefacts continue to be sold on the black market. But Peru is getting better at protecting its past.
Peru reopens its UFO investigations agency
Peru’s air force is reopening an office responsible for investigating UFOs due to “increased sightings of anomalous aerial phenomena” in the country’s skies.
How to protect Lima’s ruins
Lima’s pre-hispanic ruins or ‘huacas’ under threat as the city expandsÂ
Peru dolphin slaughter
Peruvian dolphin slaughter: Fishermen use them for shark bait.
The nature business
Finding a marketplace for the Amazon rainforest. Eco-tourism as a conservation tool.
Cocaine: History between the Lines
Dan Collyns worked as the Peru producer on this feature-length History Channel documentary about the cocaine trade. Toby Barraud of NFGTV hired Dan to get the inside track on the drugs war at source.
Communing with the deities of Chavin de Huantar
One of Peru’s most fascinating ancient sites, Chavin de Huantar, holds secrets witnessed by just a few thousand visitors a year.
Gold rush; 2012 predictions
See Dan Collyns in action on the Americas Now program for CCTV
Health Check: Bat gene map rabies clues
Up to twenty children in Peru have died from rabies after being bitten by vampire bats.
So now health workers are now vaccinating the most vulnerable in the remote Amazonas province of Condorcanqui, close to the border with Ecuador.
Families live in huts with hardly any walls and often not enough mosquito nets for everyone. The destruction of the rain forest appears to have led to a drop in the number of natural predators of the bats, helping them to thrive.
Now villagers are fighting back, collecting bats from caves so that scientists can sequence the DNA of the rabies virus to create a genetic map that may eventually help to reduce outbreaks.