One potent tributary in the surging cocaine pipeline begins in the mountains of Cauca province, where nearly every plot of ...

Despite record cocaine seizures in production and transit countries, huge quantities of the drug arrived in consumer markets ...

Peru, the region’s top gold producer, has long been an epicenter of illegal mining. Much of the activity is concentrated in the southeastern department of Madre de Dios, where vast swaths of primary ...

And government lab tests ... farmer plants coca,” Hoyos said. The various species cultivated in the mountain region have such nicknames as “little bird,” “guava,” “Peruvian” and ...

Already a subscriber? Log in In Peru’s Amazon region, drug gangs running the coca trade in cooperation with Mexican cartels have over recent years expanded into illegal mining, especially for gold.

New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest. Developed by the University of Sheffield, the technology uses satellite ...

PERU, May 12, 2025 /EINPresswire / -- Today, talking about the development of the jungle is also talking about oil palm. Where once there were coca leaves or indiscriminate logging, today there ...

Peru holds the second-largest share of Amazon rainforest after Brazil, with over 70 million hectares—about 60 percent of Peru’s territory, according to nonprofit Rainforest Trust. It’s one ...

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Explore Explore Billboard See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In their native country, Los Mirlos (named after the blackbirds of the Peruvian jungle) are legends ...

New technology is helping Peru fight against the illegal logging of its 68 million hectares of valuable tropical rainforest. Google Earth Image © Airbus 2025 showing ...

It rises steeply from the relatively flat jungle landscape of eastern Peru, making it visible from as far west as the Andes — 250 miles (400 kilometers) away — on a clear day. The formation ...