Huascarán National Park Archives – The Green Optimistic

Illegal Mining Peru’s Largest National Park

Benji Jerew — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:12:42 +0000

The words “National Park” and “Mining” most likely don’t go together in our minds, unless the word “prohibited” is included. Indeed, “mining” operations have been “prohibited” in Huascarán “National Park” (Parque Nacional Huascarán, en Español), since 1987, but apparently not if you care less about the law or the environment than making sweet, sweet, profits […]

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Twisted Climate Change Eco-Tourism Forms Around Disappearing Peruvian Glaciers

Benji Jerew — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 16:39:01 +0000

Given that Perú is home to more tropical glaciers than anywhere else in the world, you might think that their melting away due to climate change would be bad for business. True, the number of eco-tourists has dropped in recent years. Back in the 1990s, Pastoruri Glacier, for example, used to draw about 100,000 visitors […]

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