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LONG-LIVED. For a shihuahuaco tree trunk to reach a diameter of one meter, it must take about 700 years, according to studies by the NGO Arbio.

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Centennial trees: the memory of the Amazonian giants

What happened before with mahogany and cedar, which are now hardly found, is now happening with shihuahuaco, tornillo, cumala, lupuna, and ishpingo.

Fiorella Montaño | 26 Junio, 2022

ANCIENT. Half of the wood that Peru has exported in the last 8 years has been shihuahuaco.

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Between the lobby and the commercial demand of shihuahuaco

Despite over-exploitation, authorities do not include shihuahuaco on the red list.

8 Junio, 2021

Por Madera sin rastro

ANCIENT. Half of the wood that Peru has exported in the last 8 years has been shihuahuaco.

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Between the lobby and the commercial demand of shihuahuaco

Despite over-exploitation, authorities do not include shihuahuaco on the red list.

8 Jun, 2021

STRATEGY. Peruvian companies implicated in the Yacu Kallpa case have continued to extract and export forest products, including species categorized as vulnerable.

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Sanctioned Peruvian Loggers Reinvent Themselves

After the veto to export timber to the U.S., loggers reinvented themselves to continue taking these products to the Dominican Republic and Mexico.

28 Mayo, 2021

Por OjoPúblico

STRATEGY. Peruvian companies implicated in the Yacu Kallpa case have continued to extract and export forest products, including species categorized as vulnerable.

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Sanctioned Peruvian Loggers Reinvent Themselves

After the veto to export timber to the U.S., loggers reinvented themselves to continue taking these products to the Dominican Republic and Mexico.

28 Mayo, 2021

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MURDER. Representation of the massacre of the leaders of Saweto elaborated by ashéninka painter Enrique Casanto Shingari.

Saweto: The violence of impunity

Our examination of files reveals negligence and a string of irregularities involving several state officials responsible for investigating a 2008

3 Febrero, 2020 03 / 02 / 2020

Colombia farewells its forests

Seventy percent of deforestation in Colombia occurs in the Amazon.

12 Noviembre, 2018 12 / 11 / 2018