Between 2010 and 2020 alone, 379,302 tornillo trees and 353,310 shihuahuaco trees were officially cut and extracted from Peruvian Amazon forests. These are large species that live hundreds of years and are valued for the hardness and quality of their wood. However, overexploitation accentuated by global demand for the resource is threatening them. What happened before with mahogany and cedar, which are now hardly found, is now happening with shihuahuaco, tornillo, cumala, lupuna, and ishpingo. OjoPúblico analyzed the country's timber production figures over the last decade and identified the most threatened species. Authorities are reluctant to update the list of most pressured forest species.

Fiorella Montaño @fiomontano fiorella.montano.p@gmail.com

26 Junio, 2022