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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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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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The Man-Made, Floating Islands of Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca in Peru is a lagoon made up of approximately 70 man-made islands. The central island serves as a hub, home to over 500 residents. Living afloat isn’t for everyone, but the Uros, a small South American tribe, have created and maintained this unique lifestyle for many years. The platforms are made using dried reeds and can be moved away from the mainland at any time. Home to the old and the new worlds, Lake Titicaca is a floating paradise welcoming visitors from around the globe.
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Inca Doctors Were Better at Skull Surgery Than American Surgeons 400 Years Later
Scientists studying the skulls of long-dead Incas have made a startling discovery: the patients somehow had twice the survival rate after skull surgery than those operated on during the American Civil War - some 400 years later.
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Illegal Gold Mining in Peru Is Devastating the Amazon
Since January 2018, illegal miners have deforested 2,300 soccer fields in one of the most biodiverse regions in the world.
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Virgenes de la Puerta
The work of collaborative artists Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo & Andrew Mroczek, rooted in LGBT themes including gay and transgender rights and equality in Latin America and worldwide. Currently focused on the LGBTQ communities of Peru, their work features photography, sculpture, film and mixed-media installation.
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Aerial Images Capture Swathes of Amazon Rainforest Destroyed by Gold Mining
Ernesto Benavides hangs out of choppers to document the devastation of Peru's rainforest.
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New species of orchid discovered in Peruvian jungle
Botanists have discovered a new species of orchid in Peru's central Amazonian rainforest, the country's national parks service announced Tuesday.
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Archaeologists unearth 3,800-year-old wall relief in Peru
Wall carvings were found in what was once a fishing city of the Caral civilization, the oldest in the Americas. The relief is thought to symbolize a period of drought and famine brought on by climate change.
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Study of Portuguese and Spanish explodes as China expands role in Latin America
Thousands more Chinese students are taking up Latin American languages with an eye to improved employability. When Zhang Fangming started learning Portuguese, it was with an eye to becoming a top Chinese diplomat in Brazil. For Sun Jianglin, a Portuguese degree was about landing a job, but also a deeper knowledge of Brazilian music. “Bossa nova!” the 19-year-old undergraduate cooed. “I really like this kind-of-close-to-jazz music!”
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Isolated Nomads Are Under Siege in the Amazon Jungle
Protected forests in Brazil and Peru hold some of the world’s last remote indigenous groups, increasingly threatened by resource-hungry outsiders.
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The rarest fabric on Earth
The once-endangered vicuna is thriving in the Peruvian Andes, thanks to a bold plan to sustainably gather and sell its valuable fleece – and give locals a stake in its survival.
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Funeral meal leaves at least 9 dead, dozens sick in Peru
At least nine people have died and dozens more became ill after eating contaminated food at a funeral in the Peruvian Andes, authorities said on Tuesday. Health officials said that a total of 50 people were affected and 20 of those were hospitalized with stomach pains and vomiting after a wake the previous day in the Ayacucho region of south-central Peru. Regional health director Jhon Tinco told a local radio station that the victims reported eating a meat dish and consuming a drink of fermented corn called Chicha.
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Descent into darkness: How a B.C. man wound up dead in Peru
B.C. native Sebastian Woodroffe went to Peru seeking enlightenment through mind-altering drugs. Then he and his shaman ended up dead. By Scott Anderson.
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A bridge made of grass
The annual remaking of the last remaining Inca rope bridge at Q'eswachaka in Peru.
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Scientists have found 142 more ancient etchings in Peru. Now AI will speed up the hunt.
Located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru, the Nazca Lines are a collection of giant etchings that only make sense from a great height.
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We Discovered Toilet Sloths And Found Hell
We have seen the depths of hell, and it is a sloth. A cheerful-faced, slow-moving two-toed sloth, peering out of its comfortable position, snugly ensconced in... a human toilet.
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How Peru’s potato museum could stave off world food crisis
Agri-park high in the Andes preserves the expertise to breed strains fit for a changing climate
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Huge cat found etched into desert among Nazca Lines in Peru
Feline geoglyph from 200-100BC emerges during work at Unesco world heritage site
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Machu Picchu has been called the wrong name for over 100 years. Historians reveal its true name
Some mistakes are hard to shake. For over 100 years, one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world, Machu Picchu, has been known by the wrong name, according to a report published in Ñawpa Pacha: Journal of the Institute of Andean Studies.
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