Peru's Rotten Wood
Peru's Rotten Wood
People & Power exposes how Peru's Amazonian rainforest is being stripped bare by corruption.
12 Aug 2015 16:14 GMT
Peru's vast and ancient rainforests are vital to the global response to climate change, home to an astonishing diversity of plants and animals and integral to the way to life of indigenous peoples.
They are supposedly protected by government regulation and international law. Yet every year tens of thousands of trees are being chopped down and exported illegally around the world. We have been to investigate the corruption that lies behind this rotten trade.
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FILMMAKERS' VIEW
By Bob Abeshouse and Luis Del Valle
Protecting the Amazonian rainforest is critical to combatting global warming. The tropical forest mitigates the effects of fossil fuel emissions and helps regulate climate patterns by absorbing massive amounts of carbon dioxide. Yet today the Amazon basin is experiencing large-scale deforestation from loggers and others cutting the forest for commercial purposes.
Last year, the rainforest absorbed less carbon dioxide than Latin America produced from fossil fuels for the first time in history.
More:
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2015/08/peru-rotten-wood-150812105020949.html
