Each dry season, farmers carve up and burn hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of acres in one of the world’s largest ...

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law has sparked intense backlash from environmental groups and Indigenous ...

According to a January report, in recent years, deforestation due to soy production ... frontier ever deeper into the rainforest. “The Amazon offers far more land than anywhere else.

Critics say the change could legitimize years of illegal deforestation ... Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares—about 60% of ...

Amendment to Peru Law Raises Fears of Amazon Rainforest Destruction ... legalizing past deforestation. Peru’s Constitutional Court upheld the amendment after a group of lawyers filed a ...