One of Lima, Peru´s foremost newspapers, El Comercio, featured deforestation in the Madre de Dios region on the cover page last month. The article is Spanish only. Its title translates as "Brutal Deforestation in Madre de Dios."
The Peruvian department of Madre de Dios, home to Camino Verde's reforestation efforts, is often considered the Earth's last remaining bastion of tropical rainforest. Indeed, there is no other single expanse of relatively untouched tropical forest anywhere on Earth to ma
Throughout the tropics, and especially in the Amazon, soil is remarkably fragile. Countless millennia of torrential rains and desiccating sun have left most tropical soils poor to
