{"id":40,"date":"2020-02-22T18:10:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T18:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iribrasil.wpengine.com\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2021-07-20T14:56:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T14:56:38","slug":"peru","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iribrasil.org\/en\/peru\/","title":{"rendered":"Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PERU<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Peru is the fourth largest rainforest country in the world and one of the most biodiverse areas of the world. <\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Although deforestation in Peru has traditionally been very low, largely due to difficulty of access, roughly 1,100 square miles of Peru’s forests are cut down every year\u2014around 80% of them illegally. This forest loss accounts for nearly half of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

The main drivers of deforestation in Peru are agriculture and livestock, gold-mining, roads and illegal logging. The expansion of oil and gas drilling also poses a major threat to Peru\u2019s rainforests.<\/p>\n

Some 350,000 Indigenous people live in the Peruvian Amazon, including several tribes that have yet to establish contact with the outside world.<\/p>\n

Legal recognition of Indigenous and community forest rights in the Peruvian Amazon has been found to reduce deforestation and disturbance by as much as 81% in the year following titling, and by 56% the year after.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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