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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Droppings Dropping Peru's guano supply threatened by overfishing		30 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:35 PM on 30 May 2008 Peru is in deep shit. No, seriously: thanks to an exceptionally dry climate, islands off the Peruvian coast are awash in preserved bird guano, which the country has long exported as non-chemical fertilizer. But while 60 million seabirds were pooping on Peru in the 19th century, the birds now number 4 million; with synthetic-fertilizer costs and interest in organic food rising, the Peruvian governme ...
Topics: agriculture, fishing, news, Peru, wildlife (all these topics)

Amazon Disgrace Peruvian Amazon under threat from oil exploration, illegal logging		17 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:11 AM on 17 Mar 2008 There's no better way to start off a Monday than with depressing news from the Peruvian Amazon, which is under threat from both fossil-fuel development and illegal logging. Despite protests from environmental and human rights groups, Peru's government plans to auction off dozens of parcels of remote rainforest for oil and gas companies to explore. And in even more somber news, Per ...
Topics: energy, fossil fuels, habitat loss, insanity, logging, news, Peru, rainforests (all these topics)

Drawing a Blanco Peruvian residents fed up with mining		21 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:13 PM on 21 Sep 2007 Big Mineral has made big investments in Peru, where the government has leased some 45,000 square miles of Andean highlands for mining. But Peruvians are getting fed up. When residents of a town called Rio Blanco took an unofficial vote on Monterrico Metals' plans for a $1.4 billion copper mine in their backyard, 95 percent voted against it, arguing that mining brings them polluted rivers instead of jobs and ...
Topics: mining, news, Peru (all these topics)

Oxy Frontin Indigenous tribe sues oil company over pollution in Peru		11 May 2007	Daily Grist
Oxy Frontin Indigenous tribe sues oil company over pollution in Peru A group of indigenous tribe members from Peru has filed suit against Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum in a U.S. court, claiming that the company's operations in the Amazon from 1975 to 1999 contaminated their food and water supplies, hurt their health, and led to the death of a child. The company -- known as Oxy to friends and foes alike -- & ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, health, news, Peru (all these topics)

Dios Mio Indigenous leader Julio Cusurichi Palacios battles for an intact Amazon	Michelle Nijhuis	25 Apr 2007	Main Dish
Julio Cusurichi Palacios. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The Peruvian Amazon is one of the most remote places in the world. In its wildest corners, in the Madre de Dios region along the Brazilian border, some indigenous communities continue to live far from modern society. But their solitude is eroding: Loggers are pushing deeper into the forest, searching for increasingly rare s ...
Topics: Amazon, heroes, logging, Peru (all these topics)

Beans for Lima Activists are fighting a new agreement between the U.S. and Peru	Kelly Hearn	11 May 2006	Main Dish
A logger drives his freshly cut mahogany logs upriver toward Ivochote, a scratchy, low-slung jungle town in Peru's eastern Amazon. Hoping to convert his illegal revenues into some weekend lovin', he takes maca, a traditional Peruvian libido enhancer. He heads to a nearby brothel, but its employees are too busy protesting pollution caused by a foreign mining company to entertain him. Frustra ...
Topics: globalization, Peru, United States (all these topics)

The Artful Roger Roger Mustalish, Amazon researcher and protector, answers readers' questions		05 May 2006	InterActivist
Roger Mustalish, head of ACEER. Can you describe an animal from the Amazon ecosystem and another animal from the Andes ecosystem whose status illustrates a particular environmental threat to those regions?�� -- Mark Stephen Caponigro, New York, N.Y. Globally, including in the tropics, we are losing amphibians at an alarming rate; many species are headed to extinction. Other than habitat los ...
Topics: Amazon, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, Peru, rainforests (all these topics)

Roger That Roger Mustalish, Amazon researcher and protector, answers Grist's questions		01 May 2006	InterActivist
Roger Mustalish. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm president of the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit with offices in West Chester, Penn., and in Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado, Peru. What does your organization do? ACEER's mission is to promote environmental conservation by being a catalyst for awareness, understanding, act ...
Topics: Amazon, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, Peru, rainforests (all these topics)

Bungle in the Jungle Critics say Peru pipeline is an accident waiting to happen	Kelly Hearn	26 Apr 2006	Main Dish
The boat ride down southeastern Peru's Urubamba River cuts through mountains and sweltering jungle, passing wooden shacks of colonos -- mixed race and grindingly poor Peruvians lured to the jungle with promises of free land -- and nativos, tribes recently brought into contact with the modern world. The area is a biological gold mine, home to endemic and rare species, and some of the world's ...
Topics: Amazon, energy, oil, Peru (all these topics)

Mad About Peru A photo journey to the far reaches of Peru		05 Apr 2006	Main Dish
Click on the photo to see a slide show of Peru pictures. � Peru is dominated by two features that are, to most outsiders, the stuff of legend: the Amazon and the Andes. The lush forests and jungles of the former cover half the country, while the storied peaks of the latter march across another 27 percent. This topography is home to millions, and a notorious draw for explorers and tourists. (Including you, maybe!) Traveler ...
Topics: Peru (all these topics)

Heavy Metal Bummer U.S.-owned plant contaminating Peruvian communities with heavy metals		09 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Heavy Metal Bummer U.S.-owned plant contaminating Peruvian communities with heavy metals There's heavy metal in Peru, but not the mullet-and-fake-satanism kind. Children in a Peruvian Andes mining town have high levels of toxic heavy metals in their bodies -- and the likely source is an 83-year-old smelter owned by the St. Louis-based Doe Run Company. An independent study found that 97 percent of ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, news, Peru, toxics (all these topics)

The Gold Shoulder Latin American activists have string of successes against gold mines		15 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
The Gold Shoulder Latin American activists have string of successes against gold mines Even with mining laws, environmental laws, and international free-trade agreements heavily weighted against them, activists in Latin America have had a string of recent successes stopping open-pit and cyanide heap-leach mines from polluting their groundwater and decimating hillsides. In Peru last November, p ...
Topics: Central America, Costa Rica, mining and drilling, news, Peru (all these topics)

Things to Do in Denver When You're Ill Newmont Mining fights off lawsuit over mercury pollution in Peru		14 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Things to Do in Denver When You're Ill Newmont Mining fights off lawsuit over mercury pollution in Peru Continuing its energetic pursuit of the Worst Global Corporate Citizen Award, Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. is headed into legal battle with Peruvian peasants suffering long-term health consequences from mercury contamination around one of the company's gold mines. In June of 2000, a truck carrying ...
Topics: Colorado, mining and drilling, news, Peru, toxics (all these topics)

Extract Marks the Spot Development, Tradition on Opposite Sides in South American Energy Battles		10 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Extract Marks the Spot Development, Tradition on Opposite Sides in South American Energy Battles Given its vast reserves of oil and natural gas, the Amazon basin should be heaven for extractive industries. Instead, the people who make their home in the basin are trying to make life hell for energy companies. Over the years, Amazon natives have become both more sophisticated and mo ...
Topics: Brazil, Ecuador, energy, green living, Peru, rainforests, South America (all these topics)

Going Mahogany Wild Illegal Mahogany Logging Endangers Amazon Rainforest in Peru		29 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Going Mahogany Wild Illegal Mahogany Logging Endangers Amazon Rainforest in Peru Illegal logging of mahogany is escalating in Peru, threatening the Amazon rainforest and a number of indigenous groups that live in its remote reaches. The mahogany trade is strictly governed by international rules, and Brazil has cracked down on logging of the sought-after tree, but mahogany ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, commercial and industry organizations, logging, Peru, rainforests (all these topics)

Peruvian Gold Peruvian Natural Gas Project Denied Funding		29 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Peruvian Gold Peruvian Natural Gas Project Denied Funding In a blow for two Texas energy companies, a huge Peruvian natural-gas project was denied funding yesterday because of concerns about the likely impact on a marine preserve, a rainforest, and indigenous people in the Amazon Basin. In a 2-to-1 vote, the U.S. Export-Import ...
Topics: Amazon, commercial and industry organizations, mining and drilling, Peru, politics, rainforests, water bodies and marine life (all these topics)

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?		18 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: marine life, oceans, Peru, pollution and waste (all these topics)

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? A Peruvian activist takes on the fishmeal industry	Michelle Nijhuis	18 Apr 2003	Main Dish
Maria Elena Foronda Farro was born to be an activist. Her father, a union lawyer in Chimbote, Peru, taught her -- through words and by example -- about the importance of social justice. Foronda, who grew up in Chimbote and earned a master's degree in sociology in Mexico, is now applying her father's lessons to her hometown. Maria Elena Foronda Farro. Photo: Richard Goldgewich ...
Topics: air pollution, business, fishing, health, interview, Mexico, oceans, Peru (all these topics)

I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
I'm on the Hunt, I'm After You Halliburton and Hunt Oil, two Texas energy companies with strong ties to the Bush White House, are requesting hundreds of millions of dollars in public financing for a natural gas project in Peru that will tear through pristine rainforests. The Export-Import Bank of the U.S. and the Inter-American Development Bank are forbidden from funding projects that ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, Peru, politics, Texas (all these topics)

Everything Goes Worse With Coke		30 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Everything Goes Worse With Coke As if population pressures and the international demand for wood weren't exacting enough of a toll on tropical ecosystems, here's another problem: cocaine. In the last 30 years, some 5.7 million acres of Peruvian rainforest have been razed to make way for coca crops, and more than 14,800 tons of toxic chemicals used in the cocaine manufacturing process are dumped into th ...
Topics: Amazon, land degradation, Peru, rainforests, toxics (all these topics)

The Oriente Express		21 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
The Oriente Express Native residents of the rainforests of Ecuador and Peru were dealt a blow late last week when the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied their petition to reopen litigation against the oil giant ChevronTexaco for devastating their environment and exposing them to carcinogenic pollutants. The court upheld an earlier ruling, which found that ...
Topics: business, Ecuador, environmental justice, Peru, politics, pollution and waste, rainforests (all these topics)

Lima Beaned		10 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Lima Beaned Roughly 1,000 Peruvian peasants arrived in their nation's capital this week to demand that the government take action against contamination or seizure of land by mining companies. Peru is the world's fifth-largest producer of copper and eighth-largest producer of gold, and the mining industry is responsible for half of the nation's annual export income. But big mining companies, often for ...
Topics: health, mining and drilling, Peru, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Peru-stroika		19 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Peru-stroika An international coalition of conservation organizations is seeking protection for a 74 million-acre, species-rich tropical corridor between Peru and Bolivia. Conservation International and Peru's National Institute of Natural Resources are working with local authorities to try to protect the region from mining, oil and gas exploitation, road and dam construction, and logging. The corridor includes 15 pre-existing pr ...
Topics: Bolivia, Peru, wilderness (all these topics)

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