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Peru neglects Amazon's destruction

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Peru neglects Amazon's destruction
03 Jun 2022
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Peru is suffering from one of the worst political crises in its history, according to a report released on Thursday, and the protection of the Amazon rainforest is failing. Peru is home to the second-largest part of the Amazon rainforest after Brazil. The country has promised to stop deforestation by 2021.

South American countries have been in political turmoil since 2016. The corruption scandal and the dispute between the executive branch and the legislature have resulted in a violent change of four presidents in five years. Left-wing outsider Pedro Castillo, the current president of Peru, has survived two impeachment trials since he took office in July 2021.

Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP), an initiative of the non-profit Amazon Conservation Association, reports that deforestation in the Amazon in Peru has reached six historic highs in the last decade. The analysis is based on data from the University of Maryland, which has held records since 2002.

The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest and a huge carbon sink. Concerns are widespread that the destruction not only releases large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, but also complicates the hope of delaying climate change, but also pushes it beyond the turning point. After that, many forests go through an irreversible deterioration process. It starts in the tropical savannah.