Peru
Peru’s mining sector: It’s complicated
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.
Lima’s future with a dwindling water supply
Peru has the fifth biggest supply of fresh water in the Americas. The trouble is it’s on the eastern side of the Andes mountains in the Amazon. Two thirds of population, most of the economic activity and the capital city are the other side which gets just 2% of the nation’s water supply.
Corruption and Peru’s dismal electoral options
Two former presidents investigated for corruption, another serving time convicted for graft and human rights crimes. Roll on 2016.
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.
Peru’s broadening middle class
“Because we don’t have anything we’ll do everything.” was the motto in Villa El Salvador, the burgeoning suburb in Lima’s south. These hard working values are instilled in the new generations who are Peru’s new middle class.
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.