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Peru declares Amazon emergency as population suffers mercury contamination from illegal mining

The Peruvian government has announced a 60-day emergency in the southeastern jungle Madre de Dios region. The move – which will affect 11 districts in the state – comes after blood samples from the local population showed alarmingly high levels of mercury in their bodies due to widespread illegal gold mining.

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▻http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/peru-declares-amazon-emergency-population-suffers-mercury-contamination-i

#Amazonie #Pérou #pollution #mercure #contamination #mines #or
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Chile and Peru in border spat over La Yarada-Los Palos area - BBC News

signalé par Pierre Ageron sur Twitter

▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34759018

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Chile has protested against the Peruvian government’s decision to create a new district in a tiny disputed border area.

Chile says the move has no legal basis but damages bilateral relations.

Peru says residents in the new La Yarada-Los Palos district will be able to elect their representatives and take part in decisions about their future

The current row began in 2014, after the International Court of Justice gave Peru an additional area of sea.

#Chili #Pérou #frontières

Peru ignores UN calls to suspend Amazon gas expansion
▻http://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2014/jan/13/peru-amazon-forest-gas-expansion-un

The Peruvian government is pushing ahead with plans to expand gas operations in a supposedly protected reserve in the Amazon despite calls by the United Nations to suspend them.

The company leading the operations, Pluspetrol, moved one step closer to proceeding with the expansion of the Camisea gas project – Peru’s biggest ever energy development – following a report by the vice-ministry of inter-culturality (VMI) last week.

Pluspetrol’s plans include drilling 18 wells and conducting seismic tests in an “intangible” reserve for indigenous peoples living in “voluntary isolation” and “initial contact” which is also part of the buffer zone for the Manu national park, where Unesco says the biological diversity “exceeds that of any other place on Earth.”

#Pérou #Amazonie #énergie #gaz #Indigènes

Stop the palm oil industry’s assault on the Amazon
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In 2000, the Peruvian government declared oil palm plantations in the Amazon region to be in the national interest. Melka’s plantation companies are said to have already purchased 60,000 hectares of primary rainforest from the government in the Loreto region alone and requested a concession to clear more than 100,000 hectares of virgin forest in Loreto and in the neighboring region of Ucayali.

The responsible politicians and officials now claim to have been unaware of the deforestation by Melka’s plantation companies. Since Peru prohibits the clear-cutting of primary forest for oil palm plantations, the companies first clear the land without a permit and then offer to reforest it with oil palms.

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In recent months (...) life in Peru’s Amazonian lowlands has been marked by fear and turmoil. Foreign speculators have begun with large-scale clear-cutting – initially in secret. Promises, threats and blackmail have prompted farmers to sell their rainforest plots to the plantation companies at well below their value.

#huile_de_palme #Amazonie #Perou #deforestation #surveillance #satellites

UK firm’s partner ’wanted Peru to curb priests in mine conflict areas’ | Business | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jan/31/wikileaks-bhp-billiton-peru-mining-communities

A mining company in Peru part-owned by a British FTSE 100 company agitated for the removal of teachers and Catholic bishops to new posts away from “conflictive mining communities”, according to a leaked US cable obtained via WikiLeaks.

An executive of the company, in which BHP Billiton has a one-third stake, urged diplomats to persuade the Peruvian government and church to “rotate” such professionals out of sensitive areas, the secret document said.

The US and Canadian ambassadors, who hosted a summit of foreign mining executives in Peru in August 2005, requested specific examples of “anti-mining” teachers and bishops “who engage in inappropriate activities” to take to government and church leaders, the cable claimed.

#Pérou #cablegate