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Immersed in crisis, Peru neglects Amazon's destruction
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FILE - This Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016 photo shows the deforestation of what was once pristine rainforest, caused by gold mining, during a government raid on illegal wildcat mining operations in La Pampa, in Peru's Madre de Dios region. The Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project, an initiative of the nonprofit Amazon Conservation Association, reported on Thursday, June 2, 2022, that deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon has hit six historical highs in the past ten years. - photo by AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, FIle
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Peru has descended into one of the worst political crises in its history and protection of its Amazon rainforest is failing, according to a report published today. Peru is home to the second-largest portion of the Amazon rainforest after Brazil. The country had pledged to stop deforestation by 2021.