Image of the Week #3 shows the rapid proliferation of two new road networks in the northern Peruvian Amazon (Department of Loreto). Most notably, it highlights the construction of nearly 150 km of new roads, possibly illegal logging roads, through mostly primary forest between 2013 and 2014. One of the roads is within the buffer zone of […]
Report #15 // January 28, 2015 – March 17, 2015 Top Stories Antonio Fernández Jeri has been appointed as the new High Commissioner of Mining Formalization and the Interdiction of Illegal Mining. The Amazon Conservation Association issued a new map showing that gold mining-driven deforestation grew by 226.5 hectares between October 2014 and February 2015 […]
Image of the Week #2 shows the recent and rapid forest clearing for a new cacao project outside of the town of Tamshiyacu in the northern Peruvian Amazon (Department of Loreto). Specifically, we found that over 2,100 hectares (ha) were cleared between May 2013 and August 2014 in an area known as Fundo Tamshiyacu. Map Description Background […]
Image of the Week #1 highlights that gold mining deforestation continues to expand in the southern Peruvian Amazon (Department of Madre de Dios). Most notably, the image illustrates that much of the most recent (2013 – 2015) deforestation occured a) in an area known as La Pampa, b) outside of the legal mining corridor, and c) […]
Report #14 // December 17, 2014 – January 27, 2015 Top Stories The new regional president of Madre de Dios and former mining leader, Luis Otsuka, met with President Ollanta Humala to begin discussions of key mining-related issues. To combat the exportation of illegal gold from Peru to other countries, a bill has been sent […]
Report #13 // November 17 – December 16, 2014 Top Stories Luis Otsuka, mining leader and critic of the national mining formalization strategy, officially won the election for regional president of Madre de Dios. Three more small-scale mining operations have completed the six-step formalization process, bringing the total formalized operations nationwide to eight. All eight […]
Report #12 // October 16 – November 19, 2014 Top Stories The second round of regional presidential elections in Madre de Dios is likely to take place on December 7th. Both candidates are strong proponents of small-scale mining and have clashed with national government formalization efforts. Of the 70,000 informal miners that began the formalization process, around […]
Report #11 // September 18 – October 21, 2014 Top Stories In the October 5th regional elections, none of the candidates for President of Madre de Dios surpassed the 30% threshold needed for victory, thereby forcing a second round between the top two vote-getters, both of whom oppose the government’s current strategy regarding the formalization […]
