Rain forest protection works in Peru
... The scientists found that the governments program of designating specific regions for legal logging, combined with protection of othe...DeLuca receives honorary doctorate from University of Perugia
Patrick DeLuca now has something in common with Pope John XXII an honorary doctorate from the University of Perugia, Italy....... DeLuca is a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy who has spent the past 15 years building a strong professional relationship with faculty and students at the University of Perugia. He has visited on several occasions as a lecturer, and also has...First Amazon-Andean crop plant transfer and corn processing in Peru 3600-4000 years ago
Mouthwatering Peruvian cuisine like causa (mashed yellow potatoes layered with avocado and seafood) and carapulcra (dried potatoes and pork/chicken in peanut sauce) combine food crops from Amazon basin rainforests and Andean highlands. Smithsonian archaeologists and colleagues presenting in the prestigious journal, Nature1, uncover the first definitive evidence for this culinary, cultural link:...'Free-for-all' illegal logging of mahogany in Peruvian parks, says Duke-based monitoring group
DURHAM -- A new report by ParksWatch, a Duke University-headquartered organization, presents evidence of illegal mahogany logging inside the remote Alto Purs National Park in the Peruvian Amazon. The information was gathered during a month-long jungle expedition just weeks before the protected area received a national park designation. ...... The report is available on a section of ParksWatch's...