Peru Archives - #ThinkLandscape

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

09 Aug 2021

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

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

25 Jan 2021

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

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

15 Oct 2020

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

Why Indigenous peoples’ issues must be national issues

17 Jun 2019

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

Restore Indigenous land rights to unlock traditional knowledge and repair ecosystems

27 May 2019

Centuries old Indigenous knowledge must be acknowledged and nurtured

Religious leaders in Colombia and Peru urge protection of rainforests

23 Jan 2019

Unity over rainforests and indigenous land rights

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

12 Jul 2018

Land competition growing

In Peru, communities are protecting quinoa diversity

22 Mar 2016

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

01 Sep 2015

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.

20 Jul 2015

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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