Contentious Copper Boom Sparks Existential Mining Crisis in Peru
The nation’s massive copper deposits are key to meeting growing global demand. A battle has emerged over who gets to mine and ...
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This Park in Peru Is Nature ‘in Its Full Glory’—With Hunters
We’re going monkey hunting in Peru’s Manú National Park—a huge ... The most popular route to the park involves a 10-hour ride down the Andes on a hair-raising road, followed by five hours ...
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Diet of ancient Andes hunter-gatherers was 80% plant-based, study finds
Archaeologists at the University of Wyoming in the US analysed remains of 24 individuals from two burial sites in the Andes Mountains in Peru ... economies focused on hunting – an idea that ...
‘Robust’ creature living in Peru Andes not seen for more than a century — until now
Along the highest points of the Andes, the rolling mountaintops can get cold. Animals there, including small amphibians far ...
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Wildfires Pose a Threat to Volcanic Soils in the Peruvian Andes
Fragile highland ecosystems showed low resilience to fire, which renders them more vulnerable to long-term degradation.
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Thousands camp in the Peruvian Andes to protect a lake from major gold mining project
Thousands of opponents of a 5 billion dollars gold project of Newmont Mining circled a lake high in the Andes, in Cajamarca ... draining it to make way for Peru's most expensive mine.
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Plants of the Peruvian Andes
Estudio fitogeográfico. (The Plant World of the Peruvian Andes. Phytogeographical Study.) By A. Weberbauer. Second, revised and enlarged edition. Pp. xix + 776 + 43 plates, map in pocket.