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The Jaguar Is Made for the Age of Humans
A writer comes face-to-face with the cat deep in the Amazon jungle and left with a new understanding of its surprising resilience to poaching and habitat loss.
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Peruvian Amazon Loses Over a Million Hectares: Official
Peru is one of 17 "megadiverse" countries on Earth, which together contain 70 percent of the world's biodiversity, according to the UN's environmental agency. The Peruvian Amazon lost nearly two million hectares of forest between 2001 and 2016, or more than 123,000 hectares a year, figures made public Tuesday by the ministry of the environment.
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Largest child sacrifice in history discovered in Peru
More than 140 children were unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, in what may be the largest child sacrifice in history.
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Exclusive: Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice May Be World's Largest
More than 140 children were ritually killed in a single event in Peru more than 500 years ago. What could possibly have been the reason?
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Mexico: The electoral price of impunity
When the Mexican lower house of Congress blocked an investigation last month into corruption allegations involving the Brazilian group Odebrecht, opposition politicians opted for an exercise in political theatre... By Jude Webber.
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Peru political crisis thrusts engineer-turned-diplomat into power
Vizcarra plunged into politics after seeing his native Moquegua, a small mining region in southern Peru, languish under corrupt local leaders and neglect from policymakers in Lima, the capital.
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Peru moves to create huge new indigenous reserves in Amazon
Two “naked” people spotted hunting armadillo. One “naked” family on a river-bank. About five other “naked” people - plus houses, settlements and crops - seen from small planes. Fresh footprints on a path, on a tree trunk, and along a Canadian oil company’s seismic lines. Noises in the night. Whistling and birdsong imitation. A loosed arrow. Fishing utensils, abandoned fires, and food stolen from inhabitants in the surrounding areas.
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Peru passes law allowing roads through pristine Amazon rainforest
Peru has approved a law that would allow roads to be built in the most remote and pristine region of its Amazon rainforest, a haven for isolated indigenous groups and an area of primary forest rich in mahogany trees. The law which declares the construction of roads in border zones of “national priority and interest” was announced in Peru’s official gazette just hours after Pope Francis ended a visit to the country in which he warned that the Amazon and its peoples had never been so under threat.
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Peru’s alpine herders revive ancient technologies to face the future
Indigenous communities are restoring abandoned dams, reservoirs and canals that date back over 3,000 years. By Thin Lei Win.
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Deadly earthquake shakes Peru
Two people were killed when a 7.1-magnitude earthquake shook Peru on Sunday, according to a regional governor. One of the two victims was a 55-year-old man crushed by a rock in Yauca, tweeted Yamila Osorio, governor of the Arequipa region in southern Peru. The other victim died in the same region, Hernando Tavera, president of the Geophysics Institute of Peru, told TV Peru, without providing further details.
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Peru's jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori pardoned, sparking protests
Peru’s president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has pardoned the jailed former autocrat Alberto Fujimori in a Christmas Eve announcement that has sparked protests across the country. The president, who last week survived a vote to force him out of office, said in a statement on Sunday night that he had “decided to concede a humanitarian pardon to Mr Alberto Fujimori”.
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Peru expels North Korean diplomats over nuclear crisis
Peru's government has ordered the expulsion of two North Korean diplomats after declaring them persona non grata over Pyongyang's "continued violations" of UN Security Council resolutions with its nuclear programme. "The government of Peru has informed the North Korean embassy of its decision to declare First Secretary Pak Myong Chol and Third Secretary Ji Hyok persona non grata as officers of the aforementioned diplomatic mission in Lima," Peru's foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday.
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The College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
Manny Medrano cut loose on spring break by analyzing a set of khipus. By Katherine Davis-Young.
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Invisible Forest: Chasing the Illegal Loggers Looting the Amazon
The urgent question: Can government agents finally prove that enough trees come from illegal logging sites in Peru to stop shipments into the US?
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Meet the Men Who Literally Dance With Scissors
Forget running with scissors; this competitive Quechua dance takes danger to the next level. (Don’t try this at home.)
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Discovery May Help Decipher Ancient Inca String Code
New clues to an old mystery about Inca writing aren’t etched in stone. They’re tied in knots. By Daniel Stone.
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Colombia landslides: Scores killed after heavy rain hits south-west
Landslides have killed at least 112 people in south-west Colombia and left many more injured, says President Juan Manuel Santos. Hours of heavy rains overnight caused rivers to burst their banks, flooding homes with mud in Putumayo province. An unknown number of people are missing. One army officer said the main local hospital was struggling to cope.
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Flooding, Mudslides Strike Peru, Leaving 72 Dead and Thousands Without Homes
Intense rains have led to flooding and mudslides in northern Peru this week, leaving thousands homeless and dozens of residents dead. According to the Associated Press, at least 72 people lost their lives and thousands are now homeless after a series of storms wreaked havoc on the South American nation. At least 115,000 homes have been destroyed, roadways are impassable and 117 bridges are reportedly washed out, reports the AP.
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Peru braces for more flooding after at least 72 deaths
The intense rains, overflowing rivers, mudslides and flooding being experienced Peru are the worst seen in in two decades, authorities said Saturday, as the death toll hit at least 72.
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Peru braces for more flooding after at least 67 deaths
Intense rains and mudslides have wreaked havoc around the Andean nation and caught residents by surprise in Lima, a desert city of 10 million where it almost never rains.
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