With more than 68 million hectares of forests, Peru has one of the five largest, most diverse and best preserved tropical forest areas in the world. It is also estimated to be one of the world’s four largest tropical forest carbon stores. These forests are in DANGER. Look at the situation in the Peruvian Amazon: [dropcap type="circle" color="#ffffff" … [Read more...] about This week, the Peruvian forests have a reason to celebrate
Six reasons to smile on world environment day
Despite the estimated 1.5 billion tons of carbon released every year by tropical deforestation. Or that the current CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has reached the highest level in at least 650,000 years. It is world environment day and I’m smiling. Despite the fact that world deforestation contributes directly to about 20% of our current greenhouse gas emissions and CO2 … [Read more...] about Six reasons to smile on world environment day