In a struggle still hidden from the public opinion, indigenous peoples and traditional communities try to prevent expanding fossil fuel extraction projects in the forest from repeating disasters like those experienced in Ecuador and Peru
Tag: Pan-Amazon
Paving a Road from Brazil’s Acre to Peru’s Ucayali: missing link for development or prelude to social-environmental disaster?
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro tried to convince Peru’s President Pedro Castillo that a highway connection between Cruzeiro do Sul (Acre) and Pucallpa (Ucayali), would generate a “great potential to increase economic integration.” But what is the social and environmental price of it?