Peruvian protected areas

PERU – The Miami County Planning and Building Commission approved amendments to the county's wind energy ordinance that at least one official said ... change being the 2,000-foot setback for wind turbines from property lines, roadways, conservation lands and other structures and protected areas.

Image credit: National Service of Protected Areas (Bolivia). Overgrazing, highway construction and intense, prolonged droughts are wreaking significant impact on the fragile ecosystem of the Sama plateau. Water is the most affected resource, despite the reserve's status as a protected area and an ...

The Humboldt penguin is considered vulnerable to extinction under IUCN's Red List, and the Peruvian diving petrel is considered endangered. ... islands “marks the first protected area of its kind within the Chilean Protected Areas Network (SNASPE) to be declared free of invasive vertebrate pest species, ...

Archaeologists in Peru have made a stunning discovery: over 50 previously unknown Nazca lines - and some of them are centuries older than the most ... When a 2014 Greenpeace protest near the famous hummingbird glyph damaged the UNESCO-protected area, Isla and his team received a grant from ...

However, the Peruvian government has not ruled out further oil exploration and has taken over two oil concessions inside the new Yavari Tapiche and Yavari Mirin ... The creation of the two new protected areas in Peru follows years of intense campaigning by indigenous peoples and their supporters.

Fishing vessels around the globe regularly turn off anti-collision devices when they approach Marine Protected Areas they shouldn't be harvesting. .... Indonesia and Peru, both countries with large fishing operations, have agreed to publicly release private tracking data (the sort that would have shown ...

Perhaps ironically, the measure passed almost immediately after Pope Francis visited the Peruvian Amazon and spoke strongly against the dangers of ... Opponents worry the road will bring unregulated development to protected areas, threaten the lives of indigenous groups living in voluntary isolation, ...

According to a study published recently by the Conservation Strategy Fund, tourism in Peru's natural protected areas created 36,000 jobs in 2017. One of the findings .... The districts in Peru that have a natural protected area receive between 30-100 percent more visitors than those who don't have one.