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This Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 photo shows the deforestation of what was once pristine rainforest, caused by gold mining, during a government raid on illegal wildcat mining operations in La Pampa, in Peru's Madre de Dios region. The Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project, an initiative of the nonprofit Amazon Conservation Association, reported on Thursday, June 2, 2022, that deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon has hit six historical highs in the past ten years. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, FIle)

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Immersed in crisis, Peru neglects Amazon's destruction
By FABIANO MAISONNAVE - Associated Press
Thu,06/02/22-4:11PM , 411 Reads
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Peru has descended into one of the worst political crises in its history and protection of its Amazon rainforest is failing, according to a report published Thursday. Peru is home to the second-largest portion of the Amazon rainforest after Brazil. The country had pledged to stop deforestation by 2021.
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An Indigenous man with a phrase in Portuguese painted on his back that translates to "Mining Kills," participates in a protest against the increase of mining activities that are encroaching on his land, in front of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, April 11, 2022. A fast-expanding network of antennae is empowering Indigenous groups to use phones, video cameras and social media to galvanize the public and pressure authorities to respond swiftly to threats from gold miners, landgrabbers and loggers. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

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Amazon tribes turn the tables on intruders with social media
By FABIANO MAISONNAVE - Associated Press
Mon,05/02/22-4:24PM , 455 Reads
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It was dusk on April 14 when Francisco Kuruaya heard a boat approaching along the river near his village in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. He assumed it was the regular delivery boat bringing gasoline for generators and outboard motors to remote settlements like his.
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