Peru: AIDESEP Denounces Illegal Logging In Oxapampa Forest Reserve

Peru: AIDESEP Denounces Illegal Logging In Oxapampa Forest Reserve   Translated from Spanish, Original Below   About one hundred thousand feet of thin wood are extracted every month of the Biosphere Reserve Oxapampa-Asháninka-Yanesha, Pasco region, a process carried out by illegal loggers exploiting the absence of the state, predating the forest. The affected area includes the National Park Yanachaga Chemillen, the Yanesha Communal Reserve, the San Matías protected forest and part of the El...

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