The Peruvian government seems to want to grant a series of drilling permits for gas extraction to Pluspetrol which will also include the exploitation of the Manu 'national park, in the Amazon rainforest one of the richest places in biodiversity
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Shamelessly threatening biodiversity. Learn that an oil extraction company, in this case the Iberian pluspetrol, would like to proceed withnatural gas extraction from an area that is according to Unesco "the richest area of species on earth" certainly does not take us by surprise, but it certainly disgusts us. And a lot too.
This is pretty much what will happen if the multinational that is monitoring the Manu 'national park in 'Peruvian Amazon will be able to obtain permits for their research.
The news, appeared in the Guardian it is alarming: the Peruvian government seems to be able, in fact, to grant a series of permits that will also include it exploitation of the reserve.
Manù is home to 10% of all species of birds present in the world, 5% of all mammals and 15% of all butterflyand in addition to many rare and unique animals such as the jaguars and giant armadillos.
Manu 'is also the home of still pristine tribe and extremely vulnerable to exposure to new diseases that have always lived in the forest.
For these reasons, Unesco the park stated "Heritage of humanity and biosphere reserve with the richest biodiversity present more than in any other place on the planet".
According to Rob Williams of the Zoological Society of Frankfurt only Madidi, in Bolivia, is the only other place competing with Manu ', because it is so rich in biodiversity.
Second Rebecca Spooner, researcher at Survival International "there is no justification for any company that wants to work in such a sensitive region" and although Peruvian laws prohibit mining operations in national parks according to the uncovered documents, the pluspetrol requested permission from the authority to enter the protected areas of Peru and, although such permission has been denied them to date, the company may develop a strategy for obtaining such authorization in the future and this is the real concern.
The organizations ofPeruvian Amazon have announced the initiation of legal action joint against the expansion of the project but the reality is that as long as the interest of the big lobbies will guide the choices of governments, things will not really be able to change and the many changes in the world will always lead irremediably to the same conclusions.
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The thing that is not understood, in fact, remains the for the government of Peru to allow Pluspetrol to act without following the laws, threatening the survival of populations and the delicate balance of one of the most precious places in the world which, once lost, will be impossible to recover.
KIA - Carmela Giambrone
