Last week Peru's government approved wind, solar, micro hydro, and biomass energy projects that will add 500 megawatts of clean, renewable energy, meeting 12% of the current electricity needs of the country.
While it's not news to most of us who work in or follow international conservation, Peru's El Comercio newspaper ran a story today about how only 8 park rangers patrol Alto Purús National Park. Alto Purús is the largest national park in Peru and the third largest in all of South America.
Alberto Pizango, the exiled leader of Peru's Inter-Ethnic for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (AIDESEP), according to reports is planning to run for President in Peru's 2011 general election.
According to this morning's edition of Peru's El Comercio newspaper, the long standing dispute between Amazon tribes and the Peruvian federal government is far from over. One of the tribes' new complaints is that the government has incorporated a number of communities into a new national reserve without their consultation, even though the tribes already possessed legal titles to their properties.
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