The African palm oil frontier expands deeper into the Peruvian Amazon, impacting indigenous communities’ territories

Mongabay
By <a class="author-link"…Mar 1, 2016, 8:58 am248 pts
Peru may be playing a more visible role in climate negotiations, especially related to conservation of its tropical forests. But despite this, deforestation has been increasing over the past 15 years, especially in its Amazon region. Much of the increase is related to expanded cultivation of cash crops such as…

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