Last week our Peruvian partner Conservación Amazónica–ACCA helped host a spectacled bear workshop in Cusco. Held from June 4 to 9, the workshop—which brought together students, researchers, and decision makers in Peru—set out to strengthen spectacled bear conservation and share information. Spectacled bears (Tremarctus ornatus) live along the spine of the Andes and are the only bear native to South America. They […]
Wow, the results are in! Los Amigos Biological Station participated in this year’s Global Big Day on May 9th in a big way. Global Big Day a day on which birders worldwide attempt to record as many species of birds as possible within a 24-hour period. The 4-person team at Los Amigos included University of Michigan Ph.D. candidate Sean Williams. “My backyard in […]
Recall that in Image of the Week #1 and Image of the Week #5 we documented how gold mining deforestation continues to expand within the Department of Madre de Dios, Peru (in the areas known as La Pampa and Upper Malinowski, respectively). Here, Image of the Week #6 documents how expanding deforestation from the mining […]
Recall that in Image of the Week #1 we documented how gold mining deforestation continues to expand within the Department of Madre de Dios (Peru) in an area known as La Pampa (1,700 hectares of new deforestation between 2013 and 2015). Here, Image of the Week #5 examines the area immediately to the west of […]
Image of the Week #4 shows the expansion of two large-scale oil palm projects near the town of Nueva Requena in the central Peruvian Amazon (Department of Ucayali). These projects began in late 2011 and, as of April 2015, now cover nearly 12,200 hectares (ha). Our analysis reveals that, of this total area, 9,400 ha […]
Image of the Week #3 shows the rapid proliferation of two new road networks in the northern Peruvian Amazon (Department of Loreto). Most notably, it highlights the construction of nearly 150 km of new roads, possibly illegal logging roads, through mostly primary forest between 2013 and 2014. One of the roads is within the buffer […]
Top Stories Antonio Fernández Jeri has been appointed as the new High Commissioner of Mining Formalization and the Interdiction of Illegal Mining. The Amazon Conservation Association issued a new map showing that gold mining-driven deforestation grew by 226.5 hectares (560 acres) between October 2014 and February 2015 in the buffer zone of the Tambopata National […]
Image of the Week #2 shows the recent and rapid forest clearing for a new cacao project outside of the town of Tamshiyacu in the northern Peruvian Amazon (Department of Loreto). Specifically, we found that over 2,100 hectares (ha) were cleared between May 2013 and August 2014 in an area known as Fundo Tamshiyacu. […]
Image of the Week #1 highlights that gold mining deforestation continues to expand in the southern Peruvian Amazon (Department of Madre de Dios). Most notably, the image illustrates that much of the most recent (2013 – 2015) deforestation occured a) in an area known as La Pampa, b) outside of the legal mining corridor, and c) […]
With her show Oxygen, opening March 4, 2015 at the Studio Gallery, Sally Levie is using artwork to help ACA protect Amazonian forest—by donating a portion of her proceeds to support ACA’s work! The DC artist describes Oxygen as “abstract oil paintings on canvas and works on paper of trees, wooded areas, and rainforests. [I concentrate] on the geometric relationships between […]
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