Stingless bees are a sign of forest health. One organization is recruiting them for honey – and protecting the Amazon in the process.
South American countries are joining forces to protect the Amazon rainforest from the climate crisis. But are they doing enough?
Climate change is coming for Peru’s potatoes. Now, farmers and researchers are teaming up to equip them for a hotter future.
In the Peruvian Andes, local farmers have long lost touch with their ancestral wisdom. One project aims to reconnect them for resilience.
In Peru, a look inside the Indigenous movement fighting for rights of nature, making ecosystems subjects for state protection.
Peruvian peatlands, the world’s fourth-largest swath of tropical peatlands, are the subject of a new national framework for conservation.
Environmental defender Javier Ruiz Gutierrez continues battling agribusiness and criminal networks to protect the Chaparrí reserve.
An in-depth look at the land struggles of Peru's Amazonian peoples
Centuries old Indigenous knowledge must be acknowledged and nurtured
Unity over rainforests and indigenous land rights
Before it was on the shelves of Whole Foods, quinoa was being abandoned in most parts of the Andes as an unwanted “food of the poor.” However, the Lake Titicaca region of Peru endured as a hotspot of quinoa cultivation and diversity. Why? According to the Food and Argiculture Organization of the United Nations, quinoa […]
In June I attended the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case meeting in London. Many good ideas were shared, networks strengthened and many new contacts for our company Nature Services Peru made. But overall, the meeting left me worried. Worried about the growing disconnect between financiers and the 100 million+ land use projects they are […]
In June 2015, the Terra-i team, together with the Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP) and the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (VLIR-UNALM), conducted the second field validation of the data produced by the Terra-I system. This time, the study area was the Yurimaguas district, Alto Amazonas province, Loreto region (Peru). We used […]