Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

Everyone does it.” That’s how the representative of a sawmill described the practice of selling fake documents to illegal ...

Amendment to Peru Law Raises Fears of Amazon Rainforest Destruction ... groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon rainforest under the guise of economic development.

Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil ... even retroactively legalizing past deforestation. Peru’s Constitutional Court upheld the amendment after a group ...

Critics say the change could legitimize years of illegal deforestation ... amendments Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares ...