By Paula Bayarte Puerto Maldonado, Peru, Sep 19 (EFE).- The immense green canopy and massive torn-out roots of an ancient shihuahuaco tree lie felled on the forest floor in the Peruvian Amazon, but the trunk is nowhere to be found. It’s a disturbing sight, yet one seen repeatedly in a country where indiscriminate logging is …
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By Paula Bayarte Puerto Maldonado, Peru, Sep 9 (EFE).- The Amazon may be known as the planet’s main green lung, but smoke and the charred remains of thousands of trees cleared away for crop production, cattle-grazing and illegal mining are lending a black tinge to the sky in Peru’s portion of the world’s largest rainforest. …
By Carla Samon Ros Puerto Maldonado, Peru, Jun 3 (EFE).- The towering, slow-growing, reddish-barked shihuahuaco, a giant tree found in the Peruvian Amazon, is on the verge of extinction from indiscriminate logging and high international demand for its hard, dense wood. In Peru alone, estimates are that an average of 504 of these trees are …
The towering, slow-growing, reddish-barked shihuahuaco, a giant tree found in the Peruvian Amazon, is on the verge of extinction from indiscriminate logging and high international demand for its hard,. Indiscriminate logging pushing giants of Peruvian Amazon to extinction | Outstanding | English edition | Agencia EFE