PERU

Peru has the fourth largest amount of tropical rainforest in the world after Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Indonesia. Half of the country is forested and 80% of this is primary forest, supporting a very rich biodiversity.

Peru has one of the lowest deforestation rates in the region, losing about 0.1% of its forest cover annually, although the rate has increased in recent years. The main cause of deforestation is subsistence farming by migrating farmers. However, deforestation and forest degradation are increasingly the result of logging, commercial agriculture, mining for gold and other minerals, gas and oil operations and major road construction. In 2005, the latest year for which figures are available, at least 150,000 ha of forest was lost and a similar area was degraded through logging and other activities.

To date, industrial timber harvesting has not been widespread in Peru and the country has not experienced the destructive clear cutting seen in many neighbouring countries. Most logging has been selective, leaving the possibility of re-growth. However, the alarm was raised by a study in 2005 which suggested that 95% of the mahogany logged in the Peruvian Amazon was illegal. Further research in 2008 suggested that 60% of the hardwood that arrives in the UK from Peru is illegally harvested. Illegal logs are mixed with legally harvested logs, making it almost impossible to detect the illegal timber. Timber exports are growing at a rate of about 25% per year and China is now the largest export market.

Illegal logging is often linked to other criminal activities, such as cocaine trafficking, with the money being laundered through the logging business. Local officials have been implicated in corrupt practices, accepting large amounts of money from the loggers; those that have challenged the illegal activities risk threats to their lives. Loggers have also been accused of invading land reserved for indigenous peoples, some of whom have been driven out of their homes or even killed.

In 2008 the government announced plans to create a special force of 3,000 officers, the 'Environment Police' to guard the forests and monitor rivers in the Amazon basin, and to combat illegal logging. At the climate meeting in Poland in December 2008 the environment minister asked the international community for $200 million over ten years to help conserve 54 million ha of forest, rising to 60 million ha. The Peruvian government is committing $5 million. Deforestation accounts for about half of Peru's greenhouse gas emissions.

Peru is a member of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation (ACTO) which has developed criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management and a platform for dialogue between national forestry authorities, and is examining the potential for digital surveying of the regions vegetation cover. ACTO believes that the REDD mechanism provides an opportunity for Amazon countries to design policies to rectify environmental degradation.

DOCUMENTS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
15/05/2013	Rocky Road: How legal failings and vested interests behind Peru's Purus highway threaten the Amazon and its people Plans to build a 270 km highway through the Peruvian Amazon are mired in legal violations and potential ...	Global Witness
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01/12/2012	Atlas of Pressures and Threats to Indigenous Lands in the Brazilian Amazon This report presents a complementary and integrated view of different forms of intervention in the Amazon ...	Amazonian Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information (RAISG)
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01/10/2012	Annual Report Card 2011 Making the Forest Sector Transparent is a four-year programme supporting civil society groups in forest-rich ...	Global Witness
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25/09/2012	Outsourcing Hot Air: The Push for Sub-National REDD Offsets in California’s Carbon Market from Mexico and Beyond The success of REDD+ depends on its ability to deliver real, additional and permanent reductions in deforestation ...	Greenpeace
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10/04/2012	The Laundering Machine: How Fraud and Corruption in Peru’s Concession System are Destroying the Future of its Forests This multi-year investigative report reveals evidence that, since 2008, over 20 US companies have imported ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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28/11/2011	The Reality of REDD+ in Peru: Between Theory and Practice - Indigenous Amazonian Peoples’ Analyses and Alternatives This report compiled by AIDESEP, FENAMAD, CARE (regional and national indigenous organisations) and FPP ...	Roberto Espinoza Llanos (AIDESEP) & Conrad Feather (FPP)
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24/05/2011	Roads as Drivers of Change: Trajectories Across the Tri-National Frontier in MAP, the Southwestern Amazon Regional studies of land cover change are often limited by available data and in terms of comparability ...	Remote Sensing (J Southworth, M Marsik, Y Qiu, S Perz, G Cumming, F Stevens, K Rocha, A Duchelle, G Barnes)
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19/04/2011	Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon: Global Prices, Deforestation, and Mercury Imports Many factors such as poverty, ineffective institutions and environmental regulations may prevent developing ...	PLoS (Jennifer J. Swenson, Catherine E. Carter, Jean-Christophe Domec, Cesar I. Delgado)
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15/04/2011	Forest Policy Reform and the Organization of Logging in Peruvian Amazonia Reform in the forest sector in Peru resulted in a new forestry law, developed with substantial input ...	Institute of Social Studies, The Hague (Robin R. Sears and Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez)
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01/12/2010	Chainsaw Milling: Supplier to Local Markets Chainsaw milling, the on-site conversion of logs into lumber using chainsaws, is supplying a large proportion ...	ETFRN (European Tropical Forest Research Network)
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06/09/2010	High-Resolution Forest Carbon Stocks and Emissions in the Amazon The researchers on this paper used a combination of satellite imagery, airborne-laser technology, and ...	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, US (Gregory P. Asner et al)
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13/07/2010	Peru: Illegal Mahogany Logging Continues in Reserve for Uncontacted Tribes The authors of this paper say that widespread illegal mahogany logging continues inside Peru’s ...	Upper Amazon Conservancy
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01/05/2010	Peru's Forest Sector: Ready for the New International Landscape? This document, the results of a series of workshops carried out in Lima, and the capital cities of Peru’s ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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23/10/2009	Upside-down: Global Forestry Politics Reverses Directions of Ownership in Peru-China Timber Commodity Chains In the context of globalized trade, the impact of international markets for timber on tropical forests ...	Louis Putzel
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17/03/2009	Chronology of evidence of uncontacted Indians fleeing from Peru to Brazil Report presenting evidence that some of the worlds last uncontacted Indians have been fleeing from Peru ...	Survival International
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15/10/2008	Tarapoto Declaration: A compromise and an action plan for REDD in Peru The Peruvian REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) Group have published ...	Peruvian REDD Group
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01/05/2007	Illegal logging and international trade in mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) from the Peruvian Amazon A report by the Peruvian organisation AIDESEP (The National Association of Amazon Indians in Peru) reveals ...	AIDESEP for Rainforest Foundation Norway
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01/03/2007	The Race for Peru's Last Mahogany Trees: Illegal logging and the Alto Purus National Park This investigation found evidence of large-scale illegal logging in remote parts of the Peruvian Amazon ...	Round River Conservation Studies
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15/06/2006	America's Free Trade for Illegal Timber – how US trade pacts speed the destruction of the world's forests EIA report documenting the link between FTAs and increased trade in illegal timber from Honduras and ...	EIA
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25/05/2006	Status of Tropical Forest Management 2005 Is forest management improving in the tropics? This report sets out to answer that question. It provides ...	ITTO
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01/12/2005	Best Practices for Improving Law Compliance in the Forestry Sector: FAO Forestry Paper 145 This report looks at some of the innovative approaches being used by governments to combat illegal logging. ...	FAO
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01/03/2005	Forced Labour in the Extraction of Timber in the Peruvian Amazon (El Trabajo Forzoso en la Extracción de la Madera en la Amazonía Peruana) The document (only currently available in Spanish) concerns forced labour in the logging industry in ...	International Labour Organisation (ILO)
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NEWS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
15/05/2013	Vested interests pushing Amazonian highway bill, putting uncontacted groups and the environment at risk under the guise of development Plans to build a 270 km highway through the Peruvian Amazon are mired in legal violations and potential ...	Global Witness
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11/04/2013	Threats Abound as Peru Cops Seize Timber Ashéninka indigenous leaders are calling on authorities to guarantee their safety after receiving ...	National Geographic
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20/03/2013	Disney invests in Peru to prevent deforestation The Walt Disney Company has bought $3.5 million in carbon credits to prevent the destruction of a jungle ...	The Journal
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15/03/2013	Peru’s Red Gold Illegal logging has all but wiped out Peru’s mahogany. Loggers are turning their chain saws on ...	National Geographic
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02/02/2013	Peru exporting illegally logged timber to the US Lima, Peru — Some of the fine wooden furniture that makes for chic centerpieces in American homes ...	Voxxi, Latin America (sourced from Global Post)
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29/01/2013	NASA data registers strong deforestation signals in Sumatra, Borneo, Brazil, Gabon NASA satellites picked up signals of extensive potential deforestation in Sumatra, Borneo, Central Africa, ...	Mongabay.com
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31/12/2012	The year in rainforests 2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of ...	Mongabay.com
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06/12/2012	Deforestation rate falls across Amazon rainforest countries The average annual rate of deforestation across Amazon rainforest countries dropped sharply in the second ...	Mongabay.com
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28/09/2012	Peru: Amazon Indians win court case over land rights A small community of Indians from the Peruvian Amazon has won a court case with potentially far-reaching ...	Upside Down World, Latin America
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19/09/2012	An inside look at Latin America’s illegal logging – part two This post was co-authored with Eduardo Arenas Hernández Jr. and Ana Domínguez, who work ...	World Resources Institute (WRI) Insights
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19/09/2012	LAC Forestry and Environmental Communicators Network formed A workshop of Latin American journalists and other communicators organized by the UN Food and Agriculture ...	IISD Biodiversity Policy & Practice
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18/09/2012	An inside look at Latin America’s illegal logging – part one This post was co-authored with Eduardo Arenas Hernández Jr. and Ana Domínguez, who work ...	World Resources Institute (WRI) Insights
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06/09/2012	Guess who's chopping down the Amazon now? Though Brazil's Amazon has been the focus of environmental groups for decades, the deforestation ...	NPR (National Public Radio), Washington, US
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31/08/2012	Amazon forest threat is greater outside Brazil In Ascencion, Bolivia — On a scorching afternoon in the Amazon, all Agustin Villa and his partner ...	The Washington Post, US
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21/08/2012	Prosecutors look at illegal logging, mining as financial source of rebel groups Peru’s anti-terrorism prosecutor, Julio Galindo, says that his office is investigating the sources ...	Andean Air Mail & Peruvian Times
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11/07/2012	Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru get big boost in deforestation tracking, biomass measurement Efforts to rapidly and accurately track deforestation and forest degradation in Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, ...	Mongabay.com
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17/05/2012	'Illegal mining bigger than drug trade in Peru': analyst Profits from illegal mining in Peru are higher than those of cocaine trafficking, according to a consulting ...	InSight Crime, US / Colombia
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16/05/2012	Obama’s biggest climate decision of the year may be … palm oil? by Glenn Hurowitz The Obama administration is poised to make one of the biggest climate policy decisions ...	Think Progress, US
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14/05/2012	Representatives of the Amazon countries participate in the Monitoring Project Steering Committee The first meeting of Steering Committee of Project “Monitoring Deforestation, Land Use and Land ...	ACTO (Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation)
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04/05/2012	Amazon road could cut uncontacted tribes’ land in half Peru’s Congress is about to approve a highly controversial road that will slash in half the territory ...	Ekklesia, UK
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28/04/2012	Peru announces climate change initiative —as illegal logging soars Peru announced April 26 that it will implement its own climate change initiative, in light of the continued ...	World War 4 Report
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19/04/2012	US Government requested to use free trade agreement to take action on illegal timber exports from Peru Environmental organization submits formal petition to US Trade Representative with evidence on dozens ...	EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency)
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17/04/2012	Drug traffickers take note of Peru's illegal timber trade Timber traffickers in Peru have built a huge logistical network for bribing officials and moving illegally ...	InSight Crime, US / Colombia
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10/04/2012	American companies engaging in trade of illegal hardwoods from Peru, report charges More than 20 American companies have played roles in fostering a steady flow of illegal hardwoods from ...	Los Angeles Times, US
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22/03/2012	Paving the Amazon: Study helps predict potential deforestation rates along major highways Bogor, Indonesia - CIFOR scientists are helping to estimate the extent of deforestation that accompanies ...	CIFOR Forests Blog
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16/02/2012	ACTO countries explore possible cooperation to combat illegal timber harvesting The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) held a workshop on the control of illegal harvesting ...	IISD Biodiversity Update
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08/02/2012	Mashco-Piro tribe appearance: Peru reportedly raids illegal logging site Advocacy group Survival International reports that Peru has raided an illegal logging site in the Manú ...	The Huffington Post
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01/02/2012	REDD: When carbon credits work in the Amazon This article is the second in a three-part series that explores the issue of deforestation and climate ...	Global Post
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01/02/2012	REDD: The Amazon's carbon cowboys This article is the last in a three-part series that explores the issue of deforestation and climate ...	Global Post
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09/01/2012	Peruvian gangs traffic timber from Brazil Peruvian groups carry out illegal logging in Brazil before transporting the wood along tributaries of ...	InSight Crime, US / Colombia
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15/12/2011	Little headway in Durban on deforestation: experts Brasilia - The UN's Durban conference on climate change failed to make enough headway in efforts ...	AFP
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13/12/2011	Western Amazon becomes Ground Zero for logging The rainforest charity Cool Earth is aiming to triple the amount of rainforest they are protecting in ...	Cool Earth
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06/12/2011	Pacific trade deal could help save species: U.S. Trade in illegally poached and harvested wildlife and wild plants could be curbed, possibly saving endangered ...	Reuters
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02/12/2011	Risk of illegal logging increased by lack of land titles [Peru] The lack of land titles in Huanuco in the Pillco valley in central peru is a factor that compounds the ...	ITTO Market Report
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27/11/2011	8 Amazon countries pledge more coordination in rainforest conservation Eight Amazon countries pledged greater cooperation in efforts to protect the world's largest rainforest ...	Mongabay.com
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22/11/2011	Amazon countries vow to enhance conservation efforts Manaus, Brazil — Eight South American countries pledged Tuesday to boost cooperation to protect ...	AFP
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09/11/2011	Environment Ministry, Madre de Dios to protect area from mining, deforestation Environment Minister Ricardo Giesecke and the regional president of Madre de Dios region, Luis Aguirre ...	Peruvian Times
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11/10/2011	High gold price triggers rainforest devastation in Peru As the price of gold inches upward on international markets, a dead zone is spreading across the southern ...	Mongabay.com
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19/09/2011	Amazon Indians confirm logging invasion near uncontacted tribes A recent expedition in the Amazon has confirmed that illegal logging in Peru is continuing ‘at ...	Survival International
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12/09/2011	Rising gold prices drives 6-fold increase in deforestation of Amazon Record high prices for gold have driven a recent six-fold increase in deforestation in parts of the Peruvian ...	Click Green, UK
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27/06/2011	Peru revamps environment law in line with trade obligations Peruvian Congress on 16 June approved the establishment of a revamped forestry and wildlife law, in line ...	ICTSD
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01/06/2011	Peru to abolish uncontacted tribe's reserve, says group ...	Mongabay.com
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13/05/2011	Illegal logging hits Peru bird habitat Lima - Illegal deforestation of habitats is threatening many species of birds living in Peru between ...	UPI.com
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27/04/2011	Deforestation goes into hyperdrive with rising gold price Deforestation around the Amazon River in Peru has increased six-fold in recent years as miners, driven ...	Science-a-go-go
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19/04/2011	Demand for gold pushing deforestation in Peruvian Amazon Deforestation is on the rise in Peru's Madre de Dios region from illegal, small-scale, and dangerous ...	Mongabay.com
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11/04/2011	Peruvian presidential election may decide Amazon future The enormous segment of Amazonian rainforest that covers over half of the country has always been an ...	The Cutting Edge News
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29/03/2011	Indians take on Amazon loggers Peruvian Indians have been forced to set up a guard post to protect an uncontacted Indians’ reserve, ...	Survival International
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03/03/2011	Wikileaks: Peru officials knew of illegal logging Officials in Peru knew that 70-90 percent of the country’s 2005 mahogany exports, 88 percent of ...	Hardwood Floors, US
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15/02/2011	Peru: appeal for Congress to pass Forestry and Wildlife Law The Peruvian Exporters’ Association (Adex), the National Society of Industries (SIN) and the National ...	IHB Network
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14/02/2011	In Peru, hopes for carbon deal wash away with the soil A newly paved highway has sparked a Klondike-style gold rush in Peru's rich rain forest, threatening ...	The Daily Climate
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31/01/2011	New images of remote Brazil tribe ...	BBC News
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28/01/2011	Gold rush in the Amazon We sped across the jungle along a narrow manmade path. 'Quick! Hide the camera! If they see this, ...	The Telegraph, UK
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14/01/2011	Deforestation in Peru generates US$ 66 million in loss Every year 150 thousand hectares are deforested in Peru, which is an equivalent to 150 thousand Main ...	Living in Peru
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01/11/2010	Peru: Statement by AIDESEP on the rights and consultation of indigenous peoples In a public statement directed at the Peruvian State, the World Bank, UNDP and UNFCCC, the Inter-ethnic ...	Bank Information Center
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07/09/2010	First high-res maps of carbon trapped in rain forests revealed Using satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plot surveys, scientists have come ...	The Hindu, India
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06/09/2010	Peru's rainforest highway triggers surge in deforestation, according to new 3D forest mapping Scientists using a combination of satellite imagery, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plot ...	Mongabay.com
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13/08/2010	Amazon tribe battles rabid vampire bats At the edge of the Amazon, a remote tribe suffers a plague of rabies spread by desperate vampire bats. ...	TreeHugger
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23/07/2010	Amazon losing 1,500 sq km each year Lima - Around 1,500 sq km (579 sq miles) of the Amazon forest is lost each year due to deforestation ...	The Times of India
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20/07/2010	Mahogany market in US threatening the lives of uncontacted natives in the Amazon Consumers in the US purchasing mahogany furniture may be unwittingly supporting illegal logging in a ...	Mongabay.com
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13/07/2010	US timber demand threatens uncontacted Peruvian tribe Illegal mahogany loggers are plundering uncontacted Indians’ land in the depths of the Peruvian ...	Survival International
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14/06/2010	Illegal logging detected in protected areas of Madre de Dios, Peru Evidence of illegal logging has been detected inside Madre de Dios protected areas, according to Indepa, ...	Living in Peru
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01/05/2010	Eco-groups say NYC Parks is lying about ‘sustainable’ wood Coney Island, Brooklyn — The Boardwalk, Just East of Stillwell Ave. Today, members of Rainforest ...	Rainforests of New York
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15/03/2010	CITES gives Peru six months to curb illegal mahogany logging Doha - Peru was given a six month ultimatum to address critical issues over the illegal mahogany trade ...	The Peninsula Online, Qatar
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28/02/2010	Brazil: Mahogany trade back on CITES agenda The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) will reportedly propose a debate ...	ITTO (International Tropical Timber Organisation) Market Report
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19/02/2010	U.S., Peru talk environmental conservation Washington - Peruvian and U.S. officials agreed to examine the issue of conservation during their first ...	UPI.com
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15/02/2010	Illegal logging rampant in Peru A survey of 78 forestry concessions in Peru found that 46 (59 percent) were in breach of their concession ...	Mongabay.com
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12/02/2010	Peru 'grappling with deforestation' While Peru has enjoyed large growth from the oil sector and gas industry, as well as other sectors, over ...	Cool Earth
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09/02/2010	Peruvian government announces rainforest funding The Peruvian government has announced it is to put "significant" money into helping protect ...	Cool Earth
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01/02/2010	Peru backs massive Amazon protected area Lima, Peru - The Peruvian National Protected Areas Service has decided to allocate funds to help protect ...	WWF
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25/01/2010	Forestry sector needs transparency to reduce risks of REDD A new project aims to increase transparency in the forestry sector, an area long plagued by corruption ...	Mongabay.com
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27/12/2009	Rainforest conservation: a year in review 2009 may prove to be an important turning point for tropical forests. ...	Mongabay.com
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23/11/2009	British NGO launches campaign to protect Peruvian Amazon London – British environmental group Cool Earth has launched a campaign to get 100,000 Britons ...	Latin American Herald Tribune
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16/10/2009	S. American bishops take stand in rain forest crunch Lima, Peru - Ever since the Spanish conquistadors set off across the Andes in search of El Dorado, outsiders ...	Western Catholic Reporter, Canada
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24/09/2009	Activists unfurl 35-foot banner on high line to protest park’s use of FSC-certified Amazon wood New York - This morning, environmental activists unfurled a 35-foot banner blocking the iconic view of ...	Rainforests of New York
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18/09/2009	Rainforest Rescue The elevated High Line Park — lined with native grasses and lounging urbanites — seems to ...	The Indypendent, New York
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30/08/2009	Roads are ruining the rainforests "The best thing you could do for the Amazon is to bomb all the roads." That might sound like ...	New Scientist
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14/08/2009	Peru to start an investigation on illegal logging in an indigenous reserve According to an Andina news agency press release, Peru's Indigenous Affairs Department (Indepa) ...	Living in Peru
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13/08/2009	Aerial photos reveal loggers inside uncontacted Indians' territory New aerial photos have revealed illegal loggers operating inside an Amazonian reserve set aside for uncontacted ...	Survival International
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10/08/2009	Indigenous peoples protect the rainforest with hi-tech tools Illegal logging is a threat to the rainforests of Peru. But the indigenous communities are using both ...	Deutsche Welle
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04/08/2009	Logging curbs Deep in the worlds tropical rainforests, workers are hammering thousands of barcodes into hardwood trees ...	The Star, Malaysia
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17/07/2009	Ecuador battling illegal loggers from neighboring Peru Qiuto - The Ecuadorian Environment Ministry announced Thursday that officials, troops and police dismantled ...	Latin American Herald Tribune
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16/07/2009	Control post to protect uncontacted tribes Peru's government has announced that a control post protecting uncontacted tribes will start operating ...	Survival International
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13/07/2009	Loggers arrested after invading uncontacted tribes' land Eighteen illegal loggers have been arrested on land inhabited by uncontacted Indians in Ecuador, according ...	Survival International
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10/07/2009	British company barcodes trees to protect forests London - Deep in the world's tropical rainforests, workers are hammering thousands of barcodes into ...	Reuters UK
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08/07/2009	Rainforest activists: High Line wood a pour choice A soft-spoken East Village activist approached a man sitting on a dense hardwood bench along the High ...	The Villager, New York
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25/06/2009	Peru's indigenous people win one round over developers Logging and other activities ruin tribal lands and set off protests that lead to the revocation of laws ...	Los Angeles Times
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11/06/2009	Law that spurred Peru unrest suspended for 90 days Lima - Peru's Congress voted Wednesday to suspend for 90 days a law that spurred two months of protests ...	Latin American Herald Tribune
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29/05/2009	Group says uncontacted Amazon tribes still at risk of extinction One year after Survival International published photographs of uncontacted Indians in a remote area of ...	Latin American Herald Tribune
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13/05/2009	Peru gets $120m to protect 212,000 sq mi of Amazon rainforest The Japanese government will loan Peru $120 million to protect 55 million hectares (212,000 square miles) ...	Mongabay.com
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23/04/2009	US, Peru review environmental advances in FTA Washington - US and Peruvian officials met recently to see how the environmental clauses of the free ...	AFP
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17/03/2009	New report confirms uncontacted tribe has been fleeing to Brazil A report published today by Survival International confirms that some of the worlds last uncontacted ...	Survival International (UK)
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02/03/2009	Illegal shipment of mahogany found in Peru police plane Despite the fact that one of the agreements made in the Peru-U.S. free trade deal was for Peru to crack ...	Living in Peru (Peru)
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19/02/2009	Amazon rainforest in big trouble, says UN Economic development could doom the Amazon warns a comprehensive new report from the United Nations Environment ...	Mongabay.com
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12/02/2009	Payments for eco services could save the Amazon Paying for the ecological services provided by the Amazon rainforest could be the key to saving it, reports ...	Mongabay.com
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08/12/2008	Peru seeks $200 million to save its rainforests Peru is seeking $200 million in international contributions over the next ten years to cut deforestation ...	Mongabay.com (USA)
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23/11/2008	Bush leaves Peru without date for trade deal LIMA (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush left Peru on Sunday without nailing down a clear date ...	Reuters (Doug Palmer)
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03/10/2008	Peru to create special force to protect Amazon biodiversity Peru plans to create a special task force to safeguard forests and monitor the rivers in the Amazon basin, ...	Fresh News (India)
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11/09/2008	Loggers still advance on Amazon Indians Brasilia, Brazil - Isolated native Indians in the Amazon forest of Brazil and Peru remain threatened ...	Reuters (UK)
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31/08/2008	The readers' editor on... how a tribal people's charity was misrepresented The pictures were stunning: brightly painted warriors aiming bows and arrows up at an aircraft as it ...	The Observer (UK)
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21/08/2008	Are You Paying to Burn Down the Rainforest? 3 Ways to Buy Smart, and Avoid Deforestation Independent research from various scientists as well as groups like Mongo Bay, The Nature Conservancy, ...	Daily Green (USA)
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08/07/2008	Uncontacted Indians killed by loggers Uncontacted Indians in Peru are being killed and having their houses burned to the ground by illegal ...	Survival International (UK)
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07/07/2008	'We Need Help To Save Rainforest' We need the UK's support to save the rainforest - that is the message from Peru's new environment ...	Sky News (UK)
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04/07/2008	Illegal Logging Thriving In Peru The frontier town of Satipo, on the edge of the Central Amazon, is a prime example of how illegal logging ...	Sky News (UK)
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04/07/2008	Illegal Logging Thriving In Peru The frontier town of Satipo, on the edge of the Central Amazon, is a prime example of how illegal logging ...	Sky News (UK)
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01/07/2008	Protecting Peru and Brazils Uncontacted Amazon Tribes What is it about the recent photographs of the uncontacted indigenous tribe of the Peruvian-Brazilian ...	Council On Hemispheric Affairs (USA)
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30/06/2008	New forestry law in Peru modifies countrys SFM guidelines A new forestry law was gazetted in Peru at the end of June, which details new requirements for forest ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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13/06/2008	Peru: Uncontacted tribes not Peruvian and not fleeing illegal logging After the Brazilian government released pictures it had taken near the Peru-Brazil border of an indigenous ...	Living in Peru (Peru)
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06/06/2008	Uncontacted tribe pictures provoke public outrage Photographs published last week of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil near the Peruvian border have provoked ...	Survival International (UK)
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04/06/2008	South American Indians demand respect for uncontacted tribes An indigenous federation that defends uncontacted tribes across South America has demanded that Perus ...	Survival International (UK)
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30/05/2008	Photos prove existence of 'uncontacted' Amazon tribe The pictures show tribesmen, painted red head to toe, aiming longbows at the aircraft circling above. ...	CTV (Canada)
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15/05/2008	Peru: Illegal logging penalties may mirror drug smuggling penalties As part of regulations prescribed for the implementation of the FTA with the US, Peru is considering ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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22/04/2008	Peru fails to investigate murder of Amazon environmental leader Peruvian authorities failed to respond to requests for protection from Julio Garcia Agapito, the environmental ...	Mongabay.com (USA)
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17/03/2008	Murder on the Resource Frontier More blood has been spilled in the Amazon, this time in the Madre de Dios region of Peru, where a tenuous ...	New York Times (USA)
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16/02/2008	Latin America: Deforestation still winning Mexico City - Never before have Latin America and the Caribbean fought so hard against deforestation, ...	IPS News Agency
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15/10/2007	Compliance with FTA poses challenges The Economist recently covered events in Peru targeting illegal logging activities in Peru's Amazon. ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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29/09/2007	Faces of Forest Loss: Prize-Winning Activists Tour U.S., Link Illegal Logging and Global Warming Rainforest defenders from Indonesia, Peru and Papua New Guinea kick off a tour of the U.S. Monday in ...	YubaNet (USA)
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21/09/2007	More evidence of uncontacted tribes fleeing Further evidence of uncontacted tribes fleeing from Peru to Brazil because of illegal logging has been ...	Survival International
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09/08/2007	Peru's Rainforest Helped By Land-Management Policy, Study Finds Peru slowed the destruction of its rainforests by designating areas for legal logging and setting aside ...	Bloomberg (USA)
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09/08/2007	Experts: parks effectively protect rainforest in Peru High-resolution satellite monitoring of the Amazon rainforest in Peru shows that land-use and conservation ...	Mongabay.com (USA)
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06/07/2007	US-Peru bilateral to address illegal logging, boost MEA implementation Civil society groups in the US are lauding a newly-revised version of the US-Peru free-trade agreement ...	Bridges Trade BioRes
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30/06/2007	New system helps reduce illegal felling in Peru The president of the National Forest Chamber, Ignacio Lombardi Indacochea, said illegal felling in Peru ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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07/06/2007	Cedar, rosewood fail to win protection at U.N. talks The Hague, The Netherlands - Bids to curb logging of South and Central American cedar and rosewood trees, ...	Reuters (UK)
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05/06/2007	Illegal loggers threaten our survival, say Peru's Indians The Hague, Netherlands Alberto Pizango Chota saw loggers come to his Indian village in the northern ...	San Diego Union Tribune (USA)
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05/06/2007	Illegal loggers threaten our survival, say Peru's Indians The Hague, Netherlands - Alberto Pizango Chota saw loggers come to his Indian village in the northern ...	The Star (Malaysia)
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30/05/2007	Peru's mahogany exports threaten survival of indigenous tribes and violate international law A new report documents widespread illegal and unsustainable logging of mahogany in Peru. The Peruvian ...	AIDESEP (National Association of Amazon Indians, Peru) and Rainforest Foundation Norway
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30/05/2007	Uncontacted peoples in jeopardy Government hands over logging concession in Amazon isolated indigenous peoples' lands. ...	Latin America Press (Peru)
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16/05/2007	Peru makes progress on illegal mahogany logging Last month Inrena, Peru's environmental agency, implemented regulations for mahogany loggers that ...	Mongabay.com (USA)
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15/05/2007	Exporters association proposes a new logging model The Peruvian Association of Exporters (ADEX) proposed a new economic model in which logging export companies ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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15/05/2007	Are These Trade Agreements Free or Fair? Washington, USA - Late last week Washington was buzzing about a trade "deal" between the Congressional ...	Huffington Post (USA)
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14/05/2007	U.S. Congress Takes Aim at Illegal Timber Trade (Press Release) Washington, USA - Members of Congress and the Bush administration reached a deal late ...	Natural Resources Defence Council (USA)
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14/05/2007	Congress combats illegal logging in Peru, Panama Washington DC - Members of Congress and the Bush administration reached agreement late last week on labor ...	Environmental News Service
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10/05/2007	Peru: Report highlights logging threat to uncontacted tribes A recent investigation has found evidence of large-scale illegal logging in remote parts of the Peruvian ...	Survial International (France)
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10/05/2007	US officials reach agreement on trade deals to open way for Peru, Panama, other pacts Washington, U.S.A. - Congressional Democratic leaders say they have forged new trade policy guidelines ...	International Herald Tribune (France)
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30/04/2007	CITES praises Peru for mahogany policy Juan Carlos Vasquez, CITES representative, praised Peru for the way it was dealing with its international ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report (Japan)
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28/04/2007	Court dismisses import lawsuit The Court of International Trade on Monday dismissed a lawsuit against TBM Hardwoods, based in Hanover ...	The Evening Sun (USA)
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09/04/2007	Peru adopts new economic model for Amazonian timber industry A future economic model handling the logging industry in Peru's Amazon rainforest will unite exporting ...	Journal Peru (Peru)
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16/10/2006	Illegal logging on the rise in Peru Peru - Increasingly, much harvested wood is illegally logged, said representatives of the Peruvian government ...	Indian Country Today (USA)
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17/08/2006	Bozovich gets enviro-lawyer Alabama, USA - Evergreen-based wood importer Bozovich Timber Products Inc. has asked the U.S. Court of ...	Mobile Register (USA)
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14/07/2006	MFI to assist in combating illegal logging An independent forest-monitoring system (MFI) for Peru will be designed by the NGO Global Witness to ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report
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29/06/2006	'Untouched' tribes under threat from loggers Peru - They are the people who turned their back on the industrialised world, having decided long ago ...	New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
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15/06/2006	America's free trade pacts driving illegal timber trade: destruction of Asian and Latin American forests (Press Release) Washington, USA - US free trade agreements are accelerating the destruction of tropical ...	EIA
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09/06/2006	Hanover firm sued over wood imports Hanover, USA - A local hardwoods supplier is importing illegally logged Peruvian mahogany, according ...	Evening Sun (USA)
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06/06/2006	US Government sued for allowing imports of Peruvian Mahogany New York - Doubly illegal, mahogany from the Peruvian Amazon is being imported into the United States ...	Environment News Service (USA)
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06/06/2006	Federal border agencies allowing illegal mahogany imports, say native Peruvians and US conservation group (Press Release) USA - Indigenous groups and NRDC sue to stop contraband shipments; three U.S agencies ...	Natural Resources Defence Council (USA)
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15/05/2006	Sunat on board in fight against illegal logging Peru - In support of its efforts to improve timber trade controls nationwide, INRENA is receiving assistance ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report
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03/05/2006	Global coalition forms to boost incomes, rights of forest-dwelling communities Conservationists on Thursday launched a global coalition aimed at halving the number of forest-dwelling ...	Associated Press Worldstream
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17/03/2006	Better business, brighter future: Developing community forestry in Peru Experiences in community timber certification of the indigenous Shipibo-Konibo people living along the ...	WWF
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14/03/2006	Department of Homeland Security Allowing Illegal Mahogany Imports, Say Native Peruvians and U.S. Conservation Group WASHINGTON, USA – The Department of Homeland Security and two other U.S. agencies are illegally ...	NRDC Press Release
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01/03/2006	OSINFOR revokes 22 forest concessions PERU - INRENA, through its Supervision Office of Wood Forest Concessions (OSINFOR) revoked the agreements ...	Timber Trade Market Report (ITTO)
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01/02/2006	Peru losses $44.5 million to illegal logging Peru's National Institute of Natural Resources (INRENA) estimated that economic losses from illegal ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report
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01/02/2006	Uyacali calls measures against illegal logging The National Forest Chamber and the Ucayali's Association of Forest Harvesters (AEMRU) sent a letter to ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report
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31/01/2006	Peruvian mahogany stands under attack Lima, Peru - Facing uncontrolled logging of mahogany and other tree species, Peruvian lawmakers in 2000 ...	EcoAmericas.com
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15/12/2005	INRENA launches Manual on illegal logging Peru - INRENA launched the 'Manual of Regulations on Illegal Logging' with the aim of explaining ...	ITTO Tropical Timber Market Report
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17/11/2005	Nigeria has worst deforestation rate, FAO revises figures Nigeria has the world's highest deforestation rate of primary forests according to revised deforestation ...	Mongabay.com
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06/10/2005	95% of mahogany from Peru is illegally logged says scientist 95% of the mahogany that leaves the rainforests of Peru is logged illegally according to a scientist ...	Mongabay (USA)
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14/04/2005	Top US furniture makers warned: Illegal mahogany from Peru threatens native people, Amazon forest Washington, USA - On the eve of the world's largest furniture show, in High Point, North Carolina, ...	Natural Resources Defense Council (USA)
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19/08/2004	Debt For Nature agreement to conserve Panama's forests On August 19, 2004, the Governments of the United States of America and the Republic of Panama, together ...	US Department of State
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06/01/2004	Peru - Nahua's quest for territory Walking a fine line between two worlds, a recently settled indigenous group seeks title to its ancestral ...	Latinamerica Press
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PRESENTATIONS

DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR
06/07/2012	The Laundering Machine: How Peru has been exporting illegally logged timber	Julia Urrunaga, Environmental Investigation Agency
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06/07/2012	United States Forest Service cooperation to Peru under the US-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement	Carleen Yocum, USFS/Peru Forest Sector Initiative
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27/01/2011	FLEGTability: catalysing initiatives to control and verify the origin of timber in support of the FLEGT Action Plan in South American countries	Ulrich Malessa, TRAFFIC South America / Martha Lucy Mondragon, WWF Colombia
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27/01/2011	International public-private partnerships for strengthening the valus chain of sustainable tropical timber	Petra Hamers, The Amazon Alternative
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20/01/2010	Analysis and Perspectives of the Peruvian Forest Sector 2008-2009	Lucila Pautrat, Institute of Public Policies, Regulations and Sustainable Development
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17/01/2008	Forest Law Application Initiative - ALFA	Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation (Carlos Aragon)
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21/07/2006	VERIFOR Update: Phase One Review and VERIFOR in Latin America	ODI (David Brown and Hans Thiel)
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EVENTS

DATE	TITLE
Wednesday 20th June 2012	ACTO Member Countries Vision of Amazon Forests. Monitoring Deforestation This official Rio+20 side event is organised by ACTO (Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation). ACTO ...
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Wednesday 18th April 2012	The Laundering Machine: How fraud and corruption in Peru's concession system are destroying the future of its forests Julia Urrunaga and Andrea Johnson will present an overview of a new ...
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LINKS

TITLE	DESCRIPTION	REPORT
RainFor - the Amazon Forest Inventory Network	The Amazon Forest Inventory Network is an international network that has been established to understand the biomass and dynamics of Amazonian forests. Since 2000 we have established a systematic framework for long-term monitoring of this region, which holds more biodiversity, water, and vegetation carbon, than any other region of the planet. RAINFOR has worked step-by-step, including partners across the nations of Amazon, taking account of the potentially strong modulating role of environmental variables like soil nutrition, and the need to help develop a new generation of Amazon ecologists. RAINFOR is curently supported by the Andes and Amazon Initiative of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.	Broken link
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