Peru cracks down on illegal gold miners in Amazon jungle
An update to the Feb. 13, 2011, post about unregulated gold exploitation contaminating and destroying huge swaths of Peru’s mega-diverse southern Amazon jungle:
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Oprah’s O magazine spotlights co-founder of Maki International as Local Hero
Just in time for the launch of their new and improved Web site, our friends at Maki International have gotten a huge write-up in Oprah Winfrey’s magazine O!
Bickering over Machu Picchu centennial celebration could cause delay of event
The Yale Daily News is reporting that crates marked “fragile” are already filled with artifacts excavated from Machu Picchu and stacked in a corner room in a building on Yale University’s West Campus, ready to go.
Klondike-style gold rush in Peru’s southern jungle threatens carbon offset deals
My friend Barbara Fraser, one of the leading environmental reporters in Peru, published a story today in The Daily Climate describing how accelerated gold exploitation is eating away at the jungle department of Madre de Dios like a cancer.
Orchid specialists to visit Cusco Feb. 25-28 for conservation conference
“The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp with the effort of talking so long. He coughed and a ripple of pain ran through the wasted length of him beneath the covers. Still his eyes burned unwaveringly bright with the memory of the places he had seen and the things he had done, bright with the unquenchable passion for the life he would never suffer or enjoy again.