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These bees don’t sting. Here’s why they matter

Stingless bees are a sign of forest health. One organization is recruiting them for honey – and protecting the Amazon in the process.

 
Amazon River woman

Can countries work together to save the Amazon?

South American countries are joining forces to protect the Amazon rainforest from the climate crisis. But are they doing enough?

 
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How Peru is climate-proofing its native potatoes

Climate change is coming for Peru’s potatoes. Now, farmers and researchers are teaming up to equip them for a hotter future.

 

Bring back the bees: How farmers are restoring Peru’s pollinators

In the Peruvian Andes, local farmers have long lost touch with their ancestral wisdom. One project aims to reconnect them for resilience.

 
The Marañón river, Peru’s second-longest river and mainstem source of the Amazon River. Indigenous peoples reliant on its waters are fighting for the river to have recognized rights. Ministerio del Ambiente, Flickr

In Peru, the path to achieving rights of nature winds like the rivers it seeks to protect

In Peru, a look inside the Indigenous movement fighting for rights of nature, making ecosystems subjects for state protection.

 
Measuring degradation of peat in Peru. Peatlands store more carbon than any other type of terrestrial landscape. Kristell Hergoualc'h, CIFOR

Peru’s peatlands are beginning to share their secrets – and policymakers are listening

Peruvian peatlands, the world’s fourth-largest swath of tropical peatlands, are the subject of a new national framework for conservation.

 
Ruiz points to a fire burning in Chaparri. Courtesy of Javier Ruiz

A year later, still entrenched in the fight for Peru’s Chaparrí forests

Environmental defender Javier Ruiz Gutierrez continues battling agribusiness and criminal networks to protect the Chaparrí reserve.

 

Why Indigenous peoples’ issues must be national issues

An in-depth look at the land struggles of Peru's Amazonian peoples

 

Restore Indigenous land rights to unlock traditional knowledge and repair ecosystems

Centuries old Indigenous knowledge must be acknowledged and nurtured

 

Religious leaders in Colombia and Peru urge protection of rainforests

Unity over rainforests and indigenous land rights

 
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Reduce bureaucracy for community, indigenous groups embroiled in land rights challenges, report urges

Land competition growing

 

In Peru, communities are protecting quinoa diversity

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 […]

 

The Missing Middle: why market-based-efforts to sustain natural landscapes will not scale

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 […]

 

Peruvian Amazon: Real-time deforestation warning system gets a field check.

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 […]

 

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