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GC in the News: Interpol Crackdown on Illegal Mining, Logging, and Wildlife Trafficking Leads to 233 Arrests
An international crackdown on environmental crime across Latin America and the Caribbean led to 233 arrests and uncovered links between large-scale Amazon deforestation and companies across several continents.
GC in the News: How Gold Surpassed Cocaine as Peru’s Most Profitable Criminal Industry
As gold prices surge, illegal mining has laid waste to swathes of Tambopata National Reserve’s rainforest
Global Conservation Leading International Funding of Operation Mercury II: Removal of Illegal Gold Mining and Cartels Tambopata National Park, Peruvian Amazon
Global Conservation is working under a newly signed cooperation agreement with Peru’s Public Ministry’s Specialized Environmental Prosecutors Office to undertake a dangerous, multi-phase national park enforcement mission to remove illegal miners and organized crime syndicates destroying one of Peru’s most important and largest national parks, Tambopata National Park in the Amazon.
GC in the News: Peru Is Losing a Battle Against Illegal Gold Mining in Its Rainforests
As wealthy people and governments seek refuge in gold from inflation, wars, and geopolitical instability, the heyday of the precious metal has turned mining into such a magnet that, since last year, illegal miners have deforested an area equivalent to roughly 700 soccer fields within Tambopata, digging up dirty gold potentially worth millions of dollars.
Reconnaissance Overflight Carried Out Against the Advance of Illegal Mining in Madre de Dios
On August 27, the 2nd Jungle Brigade for the Protection of the Amazon received a visit from Dr. Ronal Ramón Flores Ñañez, Deputy Supreme Prosecutor attached to the Office of the Attorney General, and Dr. Frank Robert Almanza Altamirano, National Coordinating Senior Prosecutor of the Specialized Environmental Prosecutor's Offices, to verify the military actions carried out against the advance of illegal mining in Madre de Dios.
GC in the News: Peru Steps Up Fight Against Illegal Gold Mining
The raid over several days this week was part of an intensified government campaign against illegal gold mining in Madre de Dios, one of Peru’s most biodiverse regions, as authorities try to stop the activity from advancing into protected areas of the Amazon. Mining has stripped away vast areas of rainforest, leaving behind a scarred landscape of contaminated pools and altered rivers in the hunt for lucrative gold.
GC Featured in ABC News: Peru cracks down on illegal gold mining in Amazon reserve with military show of force
Teams of soldiers on Tuesday stormed Tambopata National Park, a spot in the Peruvian Amazon in the southeastern Madre de Dios region visited by an average of 40,000 tourists per year. ABC News documented countless gold mining camps along the Tambopata river, which was home to a rich rainforest a few years prior.
Peruvian Airforce and GC Sign Cooperation Agreement to Protect Peru’s National Parks and Indigenous Territories
Margoth Quispy, the GC Director for South America, is spearheading a vital initiative in Peru's capital, Lima. A Memorandum of Understanding was inked with the Peruvian Air Force General to oversee the preservation of four national parks and nine Indigenous Communities. Over 1.2 million acres combined are now protected by Global Park Defense and Community Protection.
GC Featured in Worth Magazine: Where Ancestral Knowledge Meets Modern Tech
Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon are fusing tradition and technology to protect territory, assert rights, and respond faster than ever.
Heroes Protecting Our Planet
Global Conservation collaborates with numerous individuals worldwide who are pioneering in the fields of environmentalism, encompassing anti-poaching, wildlife conservation, and the promotion of human-wildlife coexistence. We have the great honor of highlighting some of our Heros for you by sharing their history and stories.
Ecoguards Arm Themselves with Technology to Protect Peru's Manu National Park
Indigenous communities settled in the buffer zone of Manu National Park have reported land grabs and the constant presence of coca growers and drug traffickers. Residents of three communities will be trained as eco-guards and trained to monitor their forests using technology and, consequently, the protected natural area.
The Directorate of Amazonian and National Surveillance, a unit of the Peruvian Air Force, flew over part of the affected areas and found expansion of deforestation and coca plantations.
Indigenous Protection of Asháninka Communal Reserves in Otishi National Park, Peru
Deploying Global Park Defense (GPD) in partnership with the Asháninka Indigenous Communities, SERNAP, the Peruvian Air Force, Naval Marines, and law enforcement will deliver the critical expansion of protection across over 400 kilometers and 400,000 hectares focused on two primary areas with 10 indigenous communities.
The 2023-2024 Progress Report for Naso Indigenous Territories Protection
With the support of the Foundation for Sustainable Conservation (FUNCOS), Global Conservation has put in place, for the first time, real community protection for these two large newly-designated Indigenous Territories—called Comarcas in Panama and Communal Reserves in Peru.
GC Mission Against Illegal Mining In Podocarpus National Park, Ecuador
Global Conservation’s Executive Director and Director of South America were on mission this week to assist Podocarpus National Park to remove 1,000+ illegal miners from deep within the protected area.
Sierra del Divisor National Park Protection - 2022-23 Progress
Global Conservation funding SMART Patrols, Joint Operations, Naval River Stations, Tourism Ecolodge and Docks
New GC Project – Manu National Park And Machiguenga Communities, Peru
Global Conservation has been invited by SERNANP, the national parks authority of Peru, to deploy Global Park Defense to protect the borders of Manu National Park spanning over 1,700,000 hectares from the Andes to the Amazon.
GC Mission - Stopping Deforestation In Peru’s National Parks
Global Conservation is invited by the Government of Peru to assist in deploying Global Park Defense in two critical areas facing deforestation in Otishi National Park and Asháninka Communal Reserve.
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