A landmark ruling that an Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon could reclaim ancestral rainforests has been set aside by an appeals court in a move some legal experts called irregular. He said the court was “trying to weigh in on the substance of the matter when it hasn’t reviewed anything of substance, only the procedure.” Juan Carlos Díaz, also …
SAN MARTÍN, Peru — The Cordillera Azul National Park on the eastern flank of the Peruvian Andes takes in a sweep of Amazon rainforest, mountains and waterfalls in a territory about the size of Connecticut, so precious that tens of millions of dollars in carbon credits have been sold in a program that supporters said would protect its trees. Mitchard …
SAN MARTIN, Peru — Rolando Zumba, a gentle 59-year-old, wept, though the moment he described took place many years ago. “You can’t live off words.” A group of men pass in front of a sign for the Cordillera Azul National Park in the Peru Amazon, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. A river flows near the Chazuta community with the Cordillera Azul …
